Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: ghisvail@gmail.com Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Matplotlib 3.0 - update ok? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:40:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Steffen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Oct 16 06:31:15 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.462 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SARE_MSGID_LONG40=0.637] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -7 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5HuCeB2tKozak5iFo5SPddL4t2nUPv5qZCflTDJmNl8=; b=MP1kEXPu5Rx+AugWJ8mGtP5dNJqlvQiMMOGvLdmv/pkWUT1x0lJS1DBhH3pzfyY2sT oZT91KvSourLiCGtp9uxltwc1IVDlU0+yZw6JmVHAI2TX/6q7n4KVk6bDMCJWeUtJALe Xzo/Sn8SC9bwg5rd3oeJVf3HoWKWKk1XWWw28+e383xVMQN8cVn8LC7oBzo6Zfu9eCxk 6JjecU5o9r2Tj4z3c5cLDWtXfROFDNcWj3IWKV7dAM6MM4XYfgrGRHVYopHoWeSwx/O1 Klmai3iIFdNY7yDMPS4uTzRkJ54iX1kacpWqa2tVRTNBQDg5mFKKMSf3DOVsYejwJfqw CcaA== X-Google-Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to :references:user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5HuCeB2tKozak5iFo5SPddL4t2nUPv5qZCflTDJmNl8=; b=g4q9i0q+cFDm2yy7tzs/0SOG+QnQD+/ufRUxl+fjp95wnSkDQc9SNi1R+TzTF0boft fXixKJLNfZLZ2GXTMwaEhnP0rMlWO6i2KeeOaJG0vwnrCFwszIFBmichuVDfFbAW/qkn EOw5gObxnIE4AmgnrOLN2uTMONY01T5bfhgJwAn6al9qtojrVlLMaEi+SWw7jm/jVfvQ y1HDd58FW6z3uwH74K+hqqIrtzzkXTPWsh/seV5MQ/kPv2V46t/KV/IpyGSx48gXLMqu FnrtAIwRyXNrtAnM4uhG/kYsUWjbZY+OsgYjIbzIvom2Q8dFODEuITnqiYZcn8wrVOUa GfrQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfohOpTHTquyNEskGIz352Uij7lNDD5uvHFmycbUHtMjGyvnjNBPG 95WvXuwVeF86JXrot6DZ93M= X-Google-SMTP-Source: ACcGV61VNeUt2Ug60OQgnfju/nRj0zJfTci2YARlLhDtY08+Uu9yjD1JCC+hnJNNGxnolYp0ibpjGQ== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:607:: with SMTP id 7-v6mr15109651wmg.103.1539671457583; Mon, 15 Oct 2018 23:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16443 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/dc3af4878c155095129c0625cd260ea82758da20.camel@gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 31 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:30:55 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <47afc535-29be-9a2f-291f-37d790a618ad@uni-rostock.de> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:11011 On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 22:44 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > Hello, > > I am keeping me busy packaging the Orange machine learning library > that > seems nice (https://orange.biolab.si/#Orange-Features). Now, the > test > routines demand a matplotlib.pyplot module that is not in version 2 > that > we feature. Version 3 is the current stable release. Ack. Thank you for explaining the context. > Now, I am tempted to create a package matplotlib3 instead of forcing > everyone to update from this long term release (see > https://matplotlib.org/). > > Any opinions from your sides? How is that going to work without creating package conflicts? I suppose the main module is still named "matplotlib" not "matplotlib3" in version 3 onwards? So using python3-matplotlib3 would be a breach of policy. Let me ask you this: where is the rush to package this machine learning library? Could it wait after the Buster release cycle, where we might be in a more comfortable position to upgrade matplotlib? Cheers, Ghis