Bug#1027215: How much do we lose if we remove theano (+keras, deepnano, invesalius)?

[M. Zhou]

Currently, I'd say PyTorch and TensorFlow are the two most
popular libraries. And I even worry google is trying to
write something new like Jax to replace TensorFlow in some aspects.

On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 11:12 +0000, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> theano has been mostly abandoned upstream since 2018.  (The Aesara fork 
> is not abandoned, but includes interface changes including the import 
> name, so would break reverse dependencies not specifically altered for it.)
> 
> Its reverse dependencies are keras, deepnano and invesalius.
> 
> It is currently broken, probably by numpy 1.24 (#1027215), and the 
> immediately obvious fixes weren't enough 
> (https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/theano/-/pipelines).
> 
> Is this worth spending more effort on fixing, or should we just remove it?
>