Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andreas Tille Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Matplotlib 3.0 - update ok? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Oct 16 06:46:28 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, GMAIL=1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16444 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20181016064615.7nja4gr4wffnf666@an3as.eu Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 29 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:46:15 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20181016064615.7nja4gr4wffnf666@an3as.eu> X-Original-References: <47afc535-29be-9a2f-291f-37d790a618ad@uni-rostock.de> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:11012 On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:30:55AM +0100, ghisvail@gmail.com wrote: > > 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. Probably. > 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? I'm not sure what might be the difference between: 3.0.0 Stable version 2.2.3 LTS LTS version We have some months left until freeze so may be right now it is not to late to package what upstream considers stable. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de