Hey Rebecca, do you have an updated list of these cycles? On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:39 PM Rebecca N. Palmer <rebecca_pal...@zoho.com> wrote: > > [Summary of previous messages: I noted that packages with circular > dependencies can't be removed one at a time without breakage. Replies > were to remove multiple packages at once if necessary, but ask first if > other maintainers' packages are involved.] > > I have now checked what cycles we have: > > - 13 small sets (one of 13, others 2-4 each): small enough that "remove > the whole set at once" is manageable. > > - One big tangle (159 packages). This probably needs breaking up: > --- Some of it involves documentation tools (e.g. sphinx). These cycles > can be broken by using the Python 3 version of the tool. > --- Some of it is "A Suggests (or Recommends) A-extension, A-extension > Depends on A" cycles (e.g. pandas<->statsmodels). If A-extension is > otherwise ready to remove but A is not, these can be broken by removing > the Suggests from A. (Assuming we're still using "broken Suggests are > not allowed": this has previously been discussed, I forget where.) > > Full listing: > > 159 pyrex lxml html5lib sphinx mako python-scipy pandas patsy > statsmodels seaborn sphinx-gallery matplotlib2 mpmath sympy > texlive-extra nbconvert jupyter-notebook ipywidgets texlive-base dot2tex > matplotlib numpydoc python-cycler ipykernel python-numpy mayavi2 > python-chaco python-envisage python-enable joblib pyzmq jupyter-client > python-hypothesis chardet pygments python-pyface python-traitsui > python-apptools python-traits ipython jupyter-core nbformat > prompt-toolkit mercurial setuptools-scm python-py pytest-xdist pytest > python-packaging python-importlib-metadata python-pluggy pyopenssl > python-urllib3 python-future pyglet python-lz4 fdb sqlalchemy > sphinxcontrib-websupport requests python-click incremental twisted > automat python-service-identity python-gevent entrypoints python-flake8 > xcffib cairocffi python-keyring wheel python-pip keyrings.alt execnet > sphinx-rtd-theme python-prometheus-client pytest-expect pytest-forked > pytest-runner python-bleach python-mccabe python-atomicwrites > python-attrs python-babel tap.py dbus-python python-qt4 pyqt5 > python-characteristic apipkg python-cryptography python-dateutil > freezegun traitlets python-typing openpyxl python-tz python-et-xmlfile > python-whoosh python-flaky wcwidth pexpect pillow python-docutils pymacs > ropemacs python-mode enum34 sip4 configobj python-iso8601 pycairo > pygobject-2 pygobject send2trash pygtk simplejson six unittest2 > python-mock python-psutil contextlib2 python-zipp python-traceback2 > python-debian python-apt python-linecache2 python-funcsigs > python-concurrent.futures python-pathlib2 pickleshare testpath > python-genty xlwt more-itertools backports.functools-lru-cache rope > ropemode colorspacious cython pyyaml cvxopt sphinx-paramlinks > python-pysqlite2 alabaster python-setupdocs nose mistune terminado > python-webencodings ipython-genutils pep8 autopep8 pyxdg > python-nose-exclude pyflakes python-greenlet xapian-bindings > > 2 rdflib sparql-wrapper-python > 2 mgltools-pmv autodocktools > 2 salutatoi sat-templates > 2 cclib cclib-data > 3 pastescript paste pastedeploy > 2 sugar sugar-pippy-activity > 13 trac-mercurial trac trac-customfieldadmin trac-graphviz > trac-mastertickets trac-spamfilter trac-wikiprint trac-wysiwyg > trac-xmlrpc email2trac trac-accountmanager trac-authopenid trac-bitten > 4 hachoir-urwid hachoir-core hachoir-parser hachoir-metadata > 4 python-pysnmp4 python-pysnmp4-mibs python-pysnmp4-apps pysmi > 3 laditools ladish laditools # two 2Removal bugs on the same package > 2 rpmlint rpm > 2 crossfire crossfire-maps > 3 python2.7 python-defaults python-stdlib-extensions > > (Based on recent cont...@bugs.debian.org messages; packages not listed > are not in a cycle) >
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