Control: tags -1 moreinfo Ghislain Antony Vaillant: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package h5py > > Whilst improving the DEP-8 tests of h5py to cover all supported Python > versions, I discovered that the -dbg packages were missing an install > dependency on Numpy (#858727). Without this fix, using python-h5py-dbg > or python3-h5py-dbg would result in an ImportError. > > I have prepared an update providing the more comprehensive DEP-8 tests > and solving the issue with the missing numpy-dbg install dependencies. > The corresponding debdiff is attached with this email. I would like to > request your approval for pushing this update to unstable and letting it > migrate to Stretch. > > On a closing note, upstream recently released h5py version 2.7.0. This > version does not differ much from 2.7.0~rc3, and providing it would > allow us to drop the last two patches from the patch queue that had to > be cherry-picked in order to get rc3 to work. Therefore, perhaps > shipping 2.7.0 instead of rc3 would be better from a maintenance > perspective. > > Best regards, > Ghis > > unblock h5py/2.7.0~rc3-2 > > [...]
Hi, I am happy to ack the provided debdiff. Alternatively, if you want the 2.7 release, I would like to see the debdiff first. It does sound like it would make sense in this case. Thanks, ~Niels
