Bug#1000336: Upgrading tbb

[Drew Parsons]

On 2021-12-23 10:24, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On 2021-12-23 06:57, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 05:09:35PM -0800 schrieb Diane Trout:
>>> On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 22:24 +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Actually because of the current state of numba, several reverse
>>> > depends are FTBFS so it's
>>> > bit urgent to push. Apologies for getting on your nerves, though.
>>> 
>>> I tried. but numba needs tbb version >= 2021. I tried to update tbb 
>>> but
>>> ran into problems trying to build it.
> 
> 
> Diane is testing a python3.10-compatibility branch for us in numba.
> 
> At the same time numba upstream has released 0.55.0rc1 which contains
> their python3.10 fix.  Should we just jump straight to it (and not
> wait for the final 0.55 release)?  I don't know how it goes with tbb
> though.

Actually I guess 0.55.0rc1 won't help so easily. It needs llvmlite 
0.38.0rc1, and we've only just got 0.37 packaged. numba is a kind of 
ouroboros, can never get to the end of it.

Drew