Bug#1124062: llvmlite: Please upgrade build-dep to llvm/clang 21

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Sylvestre, Mo and other LLVM-folks,

There is work in progress to update llvmlite to llvm-21 - it needs the 
new upstream version plus some patches, as I've referred to in previous 
mails / bug reports.

https://salsa.debian.org/stuart/llvmlite/-/tree/tmp/llvm-21-support

There is likewise numba updated to use that llvmlite at

https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/numba/-/tree/debian/experimental

I'd be very happy to upload both llvmlite and numba to experimental as a 
starting point. My experiment on debusine with various rdeps looks 
promising so I think it's reasonable to do that.

Are you happy for me to do so?

For longer term maintenance, llvmlite and numba are so closely coupled 
packages that I wonder if they need to have the same maintainers. I 
wouldn't want to exclude the llvm maintainers from continuing to 
contribute to these packages as they definitely need your expertise. 
It's actually quite easy to enable by adding the additional mailing list 
to Uploaders and tweaking some permissions on salsa - there's a few 
packages across the Python and Science teams that have done this and it 
works well.

Are you happy for me to move llvmlite on salsa into the science-team 
with that setup? (or would you like to do it the opposite way around?)

thanks
Stuart



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