Bug#976735: spyder needs source upload for Python 3.9 transition

[Julian Gilbey]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:21:15PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 06:58:29 +0000 Julian Gilbey <jdg at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Package: spyder
> > > Version: 3.3.6+dfsg1-5
> > > Severity: serious
> > >
> > > Since binNMUs are not possible for binary-all packages,
> > > a source upload is needed for the Python 3.9 transition.
> > >
> > > In a more general note, does /usr/bin/spyder3 have to use
> > > the versioned interpreter instead of python3?
> >
> > The versioned interpreter can be avoided by removing '{interpreter} '
> > from the definition of PYBUILD_AFTER_INSTALL in debian/rules.
> 
> Please consider to apply the fix if it works, also for #976966
> Since freeze is near, it would be unfortunate to loose spyder and spyder-* packages in bullseye.
> 
> Nilesh

Hi Nilesh,

I tried it, but it turns out that the problem is much more serious
than this: all that this patch did was to highlight the other issues.
(See the other bug reports on python3-spyder.)

I have a package of Spyder 4 waiting to upload, but it requires five
packages to be accepted into unstable from NEW first (pyls-server,
pyls-black, pyls-spyder, abydos, textdistance); once that happens, the
rest of the packages are almost ready to go.

I, too, hope that we can get them in before the freeze.

Best wishes,

   Julian