I am contacting you on behalf of the package maintainers in Debian to discuss the current status of the Spyder package in the archive and the best course of actions moving forward.
The Spyder package is currently sync'd with the latest stable version (2.3.8). However, it is currently affected by the following RC bug (planned QtWebkit 4 removal), which prevents it to transition to the testing distribution. We are planning to package Spyder 3.x at some point but quite a few dependencies are currently missing or needs to be packaged (Jupyter, QtAwesome...), so the process will take time. Meanwhile, I would like to explore the possibility to maintain 2.3.8 a little longer by removing the problematic dependency on qt4webkit. So far, I can think of the following 2 options: - Patch / port spyder 2.3.8 to support PyQt5, perhaps using the existing work on master. - Patch spyder 2.3.8 to disable the features relying on qt4webkit. - Other options? Can I have your opinion on which option(s) sound the least painful from a maintenance point-of-view. Or perhaps none of these are worth considering because it would be too much work. Looking forward to your feedback. Many thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
