Hi Christoph, On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 06:49:15PM +0100, Jan Christoph Terasa wrote: > Hi, > > the soft freeze of buster is approaching fast, will there be a chance to get > a more recent (latest?) version of upstream ipython3 (https://ipython.org/) > into buster, or at least into sid? ipython3 is still on v5.8, which is the > last one supporting python2. I guess this is since currently both versions > are handled by the same source package, so the adoption of the newest > upstream version needs a redesign of the way ipython2/3 is currently > packaged for Debian? v5.8 is more than one year old by now, and there have > been very useful additions since then. I currently install it via pip3 on my > work systems, but I'd love to get it through the usual Debian packaging. > > If any help is needed on this issue I might see what I can do about this, > but I have never packaged anything for Debian, so I have no experience with > that. >
I agree, that would be nice to have! My suspicion is that it's too late for this, because a NEW src:python3-ipython might be considered a large/disruptive change post 12 Jan 2019, but I could be wrong. Here is the output from apt-cache rdepends python3-ipython on sid: Reverse Depends: ipython3 python3-caffe-cuda python3-yt python3-sagenb-export python3-skbio python3-randomize python3-pweave python3-line-profiler python3-fluids python3-pyraf python3-pprofile python3-nbconvert python3-nb2plots python3-jupyter-console python3-itango python3-ipywidgets androguard python3-ipykernel python3-glue python3-caffe-cpu Sorry, I don't have time to make sure the rdeps wouldn't break before the soft freeze. Worst case scenario is that the new ipython3 would be a good candidate for buster-backports. Kind regards, Nicholas
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