On 18.02.25 19:41, M. Zhou wrote:
On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 09:50 -0800, Diane Trout wrote:
Do you have any ideas of what could be done to help get a version of
llvmlite that works with numba into Debian?
No idea. I'm keeping an eye on upstream release but the only option
I can see to make it work is to depend on the LLVM version that does
not exist in unstable.
I don't understand why the release team insists on having only a limited
number of LLVM versions in a release. First, they actively make it
difficult to introduce new LLVM versions, filing RC issues that hinder
new versions entering testing, then they limit the number of LLVM
versions. What is gained by this? A disservice to Debian's users.
I had asked both the Debian and Ubuntu security teams, if they had to
act on LLVM in past releases, and they both confirmed that there were no
actions. So why showing this stubborn behavior?
You also could vendorize the llvm version into llvmlite, or at least
shrink down the Debian LLVM packaging to only ship packages needed by
llvmlite.
Fyi, I kept the LLVM 15 packages in Ubuntu to still ship llvmlite. See
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/768702530/llvm-toolchain-15_1%3A15.0.7-15build1_1%3A15.0.7-15ubuntu1.diff.gz
Matthias
