[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1058474: gubbins: please (temporarily) drop python3-numba dependencies

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Graham,

Am Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 02:12:27PM -0100 schrieb Graham Inggs:
> Your package has a dependency, build-dependency or autopkgtest
> dependency on python3-numba.  Numba is currently not compatible with
> Python 3.12, although support is expected in the upcoming 0.59
> release.  Please drop these dependencies for now, so we can proceed
> with the Python 3.12 transition.
> 
> As Numba often seems to lag behind major Python releases, please
> consider using Recommends instead of Depends to avoid having to make
> similar changes in future.

I admit I do not really understand this request.  Gubbins simply
depends numba.  How do you expect to drop it "temporarily"?  Also
Recommends is simply wrong since there are several references to
numba in the main code so its clearly a Depends relation.

Kind regards
   Andreas. 

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