Re: dask and python-xarray removed from testing

On 24/08/2026 07:46, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
> Antonio Valentino <[email protected]> schreef op 24 
> augustus 2026 08:08:51 CEST:
>
>     Dear Diane, all, both dask and python-xarray have been removed
>     from testing on July the 30th causing the removal of a relatively
>     large stack of packages that rely on them. Both dask and, most of
>     all, python-xarray are an important part of the modern Python
>     scientific stack, so, IMHO, it is a real pity to have them out of
>     testing for so long time. Apparently there is a quite complex
>     (circular?) set of dependency involving at least dask,
>     dask.distributed, python-sparse, python-xarray, python-pint, cfgrib.
>
>
If it helps, cfgrib only needs python-xarray for testing; a build with 
<!nocheck> currently still depends on python3-xarray, this could be 
fixed if it needs to in order to break a circular dependency.

Regards

Alastair

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