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Bug#874339: ITP: rpy2-2.8 -- Python interface to the GNU R language and environment



On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 08:39 +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : rpy2-2.8
>   Version         : 2.8.6
>   Upstream Author : Laurent Gautier <lgautier@gmail.com>
> * URL             : https://rpy2.bitbucket.io/
> * License         : GPL-2+
>   Programming Lang: C, Python
>   Description     : Python interface to the GNU R language and environment
> 
>  This Debian package provides RPy2, a very simple yet robust Python interface
> to the GNU R Programming Language. It can manage different types of R objects,
> and can execute arbitrary R functions, including graphic functions. Rpy2 is a
> rewrite and extension of the older RPy interface.
> 
>  Rpy2 is already in Debian, however Rpy2 2.9 no longer supports Python 2, so
> the Python 2 package was recently removed from Debian. Since sagemath depends
> on rpy2 while using Python 2, this package reintroduces the Python 2 version of
> Rpy2, based on the 2.8 series.

We're aiming to remove Python 2 from Debian, so it doesn't make sense
to introduce another reverse dependency on it.  sagemath should be
changed to work with Python 3 only.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All extremists should be taken out and shot.

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