[Bug 1542928] Re: python-scientific should be removed

[Martin Pitt]

Entirely removing it is not that easy,  we need to remove a bunch of
other  packages that depend on it:

$ reverse-depends src:python-scientific
Reverse-Recommends
==================
* python-scitools               (for python-scientific)
* science-distributedcomputing  (for mpich2python)
* science-distributedcomputing  (for python-mpi)
* science-distributedcomputing  (for openmpipython)
* science-engineering-dev       (for python-netcdf)
* science-meteorology           (for python-netcdf)
* science-nanoscale-physics     (for python-scientific)
* science-viewing               (for python-scientific)
* science-viewing-dev           (for python-scientific)

Reverse-Depends
===============
* gpivtools-mpi                 (for mpich2python)
* gpivtools-mpi                 (for openmpipython)
* gpivtools-mpi                 (for python-scientific)
* python-dolfin                 (for python-netcdf)
* python-mmtk                   (for python-netcdf)
* python-mmtk                   (for python-scientific)
* sixpack                       (for python-scientific)


$ reverse-depends -b src:python-scientific
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* mmtk                          (for python-scientific)
* mmtk                          (for python-netcdf)


Are all of those ok to go?

** Changed in: python-scientific (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  python-scientific should be removed

Status in python-scientific package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in python-scientific package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The latest netcdf package (1:4.4.0-1 ) is stuck in -proposed. This is presumably because the transition is waiting for python-scientific:
  http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/netcdf.html

  python-scientific does not build because it is not compatible with the latest numPy (1.9), and will probably not be fixed before the Debian Import Freeze:
  https://bitbucket.org/khinsen/scientificpython/issues/13/numpy-19-has-dropped-support-for
  As you can see from that bug, python-scientific has been removed from most distributions (including Debian Testing).

  Python-scientific should probably be removed from Ubuntu Xenial
  (16.04) as well.

  The reverse dependencies have also been removed in Debian Testing and should also be removed from Ubuntu Xenial:
  - sixpack
  - mmtk
  - dolfin
  - gpivtools

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