[Debian-med-packaging] [Python-apps-team] cython for jessie-backports

[Charles Plessy]

> On الإثنين 12 تشرين الأول 2015 20:36, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > 
> > fresh cython (0.23.2+git16-ga8fbae1-1) would lead to those FTBFS of
> > versions in jessie:
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > well, given that backport's priority iirc is lower that stock jessie,
> > maybe it wouldn't hurt as badly
 
Le Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:45:23PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
> 
> I believe you're correct, but why should it hurt at all? If those
> packages specify cython << 0.23 in d/control during backporting,
> shouldn't they get jessie's cython rather than jessie-backports'
> regardless of default priorities?
> 
>  I think a cython backport would also be useful for users on stable who
> may need to build other software.

Hi all,

at least with sbuild, the packages from jessie-backports will not be pulled
automatically unless changing the resolver from apt to aptitude.

Nevertheless, I think that it would be good to double-check if, within
jessie-backports, some packages would fail to build with jessie-backport's
cython, because operations like changing the resolver affect all the
dependances, so one could imagine that a package would start to fail to build
because it needs python-foo from jessie-backports but can not use a cython
version higher than the one in jessie.

Have a nice day,

Charles

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Charles Plessy
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