Re: jupyter-notebook packages

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On 2024-07-01 14:55, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 02:40:00PM +0200, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > On 2024-06-29 14:20, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Dear Debian science,
> > >
> > > The jupyter-notebook packages are in bad shape,
> > > there are 4 RC bugs and the last maintainer upload was nearly 2 years
> > > ago,
> > > the version in unstable does not start, there are new usptreamm versions
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Maybe we can do something about it.
> >
> > jupyter-client is in the same situation, and nbclient (though the 
> > python
> > 3.12 errors are coming from jupyter).
> >
> > I don't directly use jupyter myself (it gets invoked by myst-nb when
> > building scipy docs).  It would be good if we have developers that use
> > jupyter who could volunteer to add themselves as Uploaders for the 
> > jupyter
> > packages.
>
> The package is officially maintained by the Python team.

Yeah, a lot of Debian Science developers are already members of the 
Python team. If not, they can easily sign up to the DPT.

> Is there any obstruction to upgrade it to the latest upstream version 
> (7.2.1) ?
> Would that require some other packages to be upgraded as well at the 
> same time ?

It's a good question.  Whoever's ready to follow it through would want 
to check.  Normally the upgrade would best be done in experimental 
first, though in the current situation jupyter is already broken, so 
might as well upload straight to unstable.
But a quick look at jupyter_client/pyproject.toml suggests 
jupyter_client is ready to update.

Drew