pyke ftbfs in wily

[Barry Warsaw]

pyke is blocking the promotion of the latest version of ply. pyke is essentially dead upstream AFAICT. The only reverse-depends is science-machine-learning, and that is a Recommends.

I think pyke should be whitelisted for promotion of ply and pycparser, and eventually removed from the archive.

This tracks the Debian bug requesting removal of the Recommends.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799284

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

we have our own version of debian-science. please demote it there to a suggests, then we can demote pyke to -proposed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debian-science - 1.4ubuntu3

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debian-science (1.4ubuntu3) wily; urgency=medium

  * Demote python-pyke to a Suggests for science-machine-learning.
    (LP: #1496887)

 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:06:42 -0400

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Removing packages from wily:
 pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily
  python-pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily amd64
  python-pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily arm64
  python-pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily armhf
  python-pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily i386
  python-pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily powerpc
  python-pyke 1.1.1-5 in wily ppc64el
  python-pyke-doc 1.1.1-5 in wily amd64
  python-pyke-doc 1.1.1-5 in wily arm64
  python-pyke-doc 1.1.1-5 in wily armhf
  python-pyke-doc 1.1.1-5 in wily i386
  python-pyke-doc 1.1.1-5 in wily powerpc
  python-pyke-doc 1.1.1-5 in wily ppc64el
Comment: lp: #1496887, remove pyke, ftbfs
1 package successfully removed.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

pyke ftbfs

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

pyke ftbfs is probably hopeless. AFAICT, it hasn't been maintained upstream in years. The last update on SF is from 2013. This is why the original bug description suggested dropping it from the archive. Maybe we should close this bug as Won't Fix. It's now a Suggests in debian-science, but maybe we should remove it altogether?