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.
Big systems like Jupyter are a problem for distro maintainers. They often depend
on packages not used elsewhere and are slow to support current Python versions.
Distro versions of big libraries (HDF, NetCDF4, GDAL) are often built without some
specialized configuration options that are needed by some Python tools.
Distro packagers are rarely heavy users of Anaconda, so are not able to verify that
all use-cases work properly.
If you require environment management as opposed to just installation, look into
Many Jupyter users have colleagues in other institutions so it makes sense to work with
conda/mamba using
anaconda.org packages so a distributed, cross-platform, group has
access to the same versions.
There are similar considerations for Sage Math and Julia. There are some other large
systems (ESA SNAP, NASA SeaDAS) where all users share a common code base and
the systems provide their own set of libraries to avoid the problems of differences across
linux distributions.
Maybe we can do something about it.
Focus on the core elements (display, filesystems, networking, security) so Debian is
a reliable host for large, well-maintained, 3rd party systems, including
anaconda.org.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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