Re: [core-updates-frozen] Different variants of Python packages in the same profile?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
> > on the core-updates-frozen branch we have a minor problem:
> > python-numpy has been upgraded to 1.21, but python-numba can 
> > only 
> > be built with 1.20[1].  I added python-numpy-1.20 and made
> > python-numba use it.
>
> How big of an effort would it be to modify numba so that it 
> works with
> 1.21?  With luck, that effort has already been made upstream?

It hasn’t.  Upstream doesn’t seem to know exactly how to 
accomplish this.  There’s a breaking change in numpy (something 
relating to typing of ufuncs) and it leads to incorrect type 
errors in numba AFAIU.  This is not something I’d feel comfortable 
just hacking around.

--
Ricardo