Bug#1000336: Upgrading tbb

[M. Zhou]

Hi all,

I'm back.

I've just finished my final exams so I could do something during
the holiday. That TBB repository is still work-in-progress and
FTBFS from the master branch is something expected. I will finalize
it soon. Andreas said in previous posts that we prefer a faster
NEW queue process. I understand that but we cannot bypass NEW process
this time as upstream has bumped the SONAME. So I'm changing the
source name as well following the upstream since NEW is inevitable.

As for llvmlite, the latest upstream RC release v0.38.0rc1 seems
to support python 3.10 . Should I upload the RC release?

BTW, what else should I do? I've been out of sync from the mailing
list for a long while.

On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 10:58 +0100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> 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
>