Well, numpy 1 isn't going to be be supported well on Python 3.13, so that's
a bit moot one way or another. I don't think Debian is working on updating
their SageMath package (and Ubuntu never had its own SageMath effort, I
think)
We have only ourselves to blame for stalling on Debian effort. Until
One possible disadvantage is that Ubuntu 24.04, one of the most common
distros, uses numpy 1.26 [1]. The current SageMath package for
Debian/Ubuntu is 9.5, so dropping support for numpy 1 would make it
impossible to release an updated the Debian/Ubuntu SageMath package.
However, I don't know
