On Sun, 2024-12-15 at 22:34 +0100, Torsten Keßler wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> over the last weeks, Arch Linux Package Maintainers have been working on 
> the Python rebuild for the new minor release 3.13. All but one package, 
> TensorFlow, where successfully updated to work with Python 3.13. 
> TensorFlow proved to be difficult to update [0]. As a large software 
> stack with different python modules and low level C/C++ interfaces, we 
> can't progress without upstream. Unfortunately, a new TensorFlow release 
> with Python 3.13 is only expected for early next year [1]. We have 
> evaluated different options. TensorFlow and related packages could be 
> dropped from the official repositories. But we think that this step 
> would cause too much confusion for users. Instead, we add a warning 
> printed during the installation of a TensorFlow package that encourages 
> users to use TensorFlow via pip or via the official docker images:
> 
> WARNING: This version of the TensorFlow package is not compatible with 
> Python 3.13
> 
> If you want to use TensorFlow, consider installing an older version of 
> Python and use a virtual environment or use the official Docker image,
> https://www.tensorflow.org/install
> 
> Best,
> Torsten
> 
> 
> [0] 
> https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/78774#issuecomment-2439568356
> [1] 
> https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/78774#issuecomment-2498148533

Just to clarify, you mean the that this warning will be added to the
'tensorflow' package, which only includes the base libraries, but the
'python-tensorflow' package will still be dropped, right?

Cheers,
Filipe Laíns

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