[Debian-science-sagemath] Upgrade Cython in Debian

[Tobias Hansen]

On 04/07/2018 02:03 AM, Julian Rüth wrote:
> I thought that there was only the SVN repository since
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cython still links to
> svn://anonscm.debian.org/python-apps/packages/cython/trunk/.
>
> * Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at debian.org> [2018-04-06 19:39:20 -0400]:
>> On Fri, 06 Apr 2018, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>
>>> + debian-science-sagemath, cython maintainers
>>> ...
>>> It is probably worth migrating Cython from alioth's SVN to salsa's git, you should co-ordinate this with the existing Cython maintainers whom I have CC'd, however it is possible they are inactive. For example, I was the last person to update the Cython package because they didn't reply in time to my bug reports about upgrading it, and we needed the upgrade for Sagemath.
>>> If they don't reply quickly, feel free to migrate it into a git repo of your choosing, or simply ditch the SVN history if migration is too hard.
>> wasn't there some discussion/consencus to meld together apps and modules
>> teams?... and there it is apparently:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/applications/cython
> Cool, then I know where to create merge requests.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply to both of you.
>
> julian

Hi,

I updated sagemath to 8.2~rc2 in git and we now need cython 0.28 to proceed. Did you start updating it?

Best,
Tobias