On 2025-02-18 20:39:05 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > 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.
Somebody would need start to take care of RC bugs in old llvm-toolchain releases. They regularly accumulate without being fixed. Also, before you start throwing mud in our direction, we always coordinate the set of llvm-toolchain releases in a particular Debian release with the LLVM maintainers. For trixie Sylvestre back then agreed that we focus on -19 and -18 and get the others removed. Cheers > > 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 > -- Sebastian Ramacher
