[Neurodebian-devel] Help needed for pandas bug: Could anybody verify the suspicion that tzdata might have some influence?

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 28/03/17 10:37, Andreas Tille wrote:
> PS: Yaroslav, you know my opinion about using Vcs outside of debian.org and
>     deriving from policies that are widely established.  Currently
>       git://github.com/neurodebian/pandas.git
>     is not even featuring the latest uploads - last changelog entry is
>
> pandas (0.19.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>
>   * Exclude a number of tests while running on non-amd64 platforms
>     due to bugs in numpy/pandas
>
>  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com>  Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:13:05 -0500
>
>
>     I'm sorry to repeat myself but you are not creating a welcoming
>     environment for people who intend to help.

This sentiment is shared on my side too.

It was very disappointing to discover that nipype will not be part of 
Stretch due to an RC, which looks like many of those the team fixed 
during the Numpy 1.12 migration [1]. Besides, the packaging repository 
is quite frankly a mess [2] and is outdated.

Looking at the other packages maintained by NeuroDebian and affected by 
RCs [3] (which include nipy, dipy and pandas), the repository layout is 
inconsistent from one package to the next [4, 5, 6]. IMO, as an 
experienced packager who has contributed to many different teams, this 
completely cancels out the benefits of having packages team-maintained 
in the first place.

I am wondering whether NeuroDebian should instead be focusing on 
maintaining high-quality backports of neuroimaging software for 
supported Debian and Ubuntu releases (a goal it currently fulfills very 
well), and leave the main packaging effort to other Debian packaging 
teams (Science, Med, Python...).

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848777
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-exppsy/nipype.git
[3] 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=team%40neuro.debian.net&archive=no&pend-exc=done&sev-inc=critical&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious
[4] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/dipy.git
[5] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/nipy.git
[6] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-exppsy/pandas.git

Best regards,
Ghis