Bug#1070188: python3-spyder: uninstallable in unstable due to pylint

[Roland Mas]

Le 02/05/2024 à 06:07, Julian Gilbey a écrit :
> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 03:04:56PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
>> Package: python3-spyder
>> Version: 5.5.1+ds-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> python3-spyder is no longer installable in sid; it depends (and
>> build-depends) on pylint (< 3.1~) but pylint is currently 3.1.0-1 in
>> unstable.
>>
>> Loosening the versioned dependency is enough to allow spyder to build,
>> but I don't know whether that introduces runtime changes or not.
> Dear Roland,
>
> That would be a reasonable thing to do.  Version 5.5.4 depends on
> pylint >= 3.1.  I don't have time to do this right now, unfortunately,
> so if someone else would like to make the required changes and upload
> a patched version of 5.5.1 in the meantime, please feel free to do
> so.

I guess I could do that, but is there any reason not to upgrade to 5.5.4 
directly? Maybe I'm fooled by only the "micro" part of the version 
number changing, but it doesn't sound like a big upgrade…

Roland.