Bug#1000922: llvmlite: uninstallable due to llvm-11 removal
Rebecca N. Palmer
rebecca_palmer at zoho.com
Sun Nov 27 22:57:20 GMT 2022
Control: severity -1 grave
Control: merge -1 1024795
Control: retitle -1 llvmlite: uninstallable due to llvm-11 removal
It looks like closing and reopening this removed its "blocks"
relationship to 1000941 (the llvm-11 removal request). Hence, llvm-11
has now been removed, making llvmlite (and hence numba) uninstallable.
Do we have an llvm-13/14 llvmlite + numba that works on amd64? The one
that was uploaded as 0.38.1-2 failed even there (#1014690), but the
above implies there's been more work since then.
As noted above, numba already has bugs on non-amd64
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=numba). I suggest
either removing llvmlite/numba on non-amd64, or having them warn on
import on non-amd64 (like
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pandas/-/blob/main/debian/patches/numba_fail_32bit.patch#L120
).
(I generally consider it a serious bug - in the Debian BTS sense of "I'd
rather remove the package than release it like this" - for a
mathematical library to silently give wrong answers. However, I don't
know how common this opinion is, or whether any of numba's non-amd64
bugs actually are wrong answers rather than exceptions/crashes.)
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