Bug#826042: Spyder crashes on start

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 18/07/16 12:17, Jitse Niesen wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:50:55 -0700 Afif Elghraoui <afif at debian.org> wrote:
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ـوز 2016 ‫13:05، كتب Jitse Niesen:
>> > I have recently become a developer with Spyder and I would dearly like
>> > to have Spyder back into Debian. Is there anything I can do to help?
>> >
>>
>> If it's the case as it appears to be that the usual caretakers of this
>> package don't have time for it anymore, you may want to join Debian
>> Science and take over maintaining the package here. I could help you get
>> started with Debian packaging if you're interested.
>
> Thanks for the offer. I was hoping for something less time consuming :)
> but I will look into packaging Spyder for Debian if that's what it takes.

Spyder is already packaged for Debian FYI.

> I believe Ghislain Vaillant (copied in) was thinking at some point to
> work on updating the Spyder package, so I'll wait a few days to give him
> and Pippa a chance to reply in order to avoid any duplicated effort.

The reason of the stalling of the packaging arises from the removal of
QtWebkit from Qt4 in Debian. Upstream advised against butchering the
packaged version of Spyder 2.x to run without QtWebkit, and instead
focus on Spyder 3.x.

However, Spyder 3.x introduces quite a lot of new dependencies that
needed to be packaged first. And that is Picca, myself, Julien Puydt
and others have been doing since.

If you want to be helpful, please consider reviewing whether the
current state of Debian unstable and check whether it contains all the
necessary dependencies for the packaging of Spyder 3.x to happen.

Cheers,
Ghis