[Debian-science-sagemath] Upgrade Cython in Debian / sage 8.2 status

[Julian Rüth]

Hi Tobias,

> If none of the maintainers of Cython will update it, I'll look at it
> when finishing up the sage 8.2 package. The official way to ask them
> for an update is to file a bug with severity "wishlist" against the
> package. Maybe it helps to do that in addition to the pull request.
Thanks for the pointer. Will do so next time around.

> You said in the pull request you don't use Debian. I wanted to comment
> that in case you use Ubuntu you can use the same development tools as
> Debian developers, sbuild [1] to build packages on Debian unstable and
> schroot which we use in particular to work on sagemath on Debian
> unstable [2].
Thanks for the hint, but I actually use Arch Linux (the Debian tools in
the AUR seem to be broken.) Anyway, I just use Debian in docker
now and that works fine.

> I uploaded your updated cython package to our development apt repo
> (see [2]) and started to do test builds of sagemath.
That page mentions
https://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/apt/sid-sage/ but this seems to
be gone now. Did this move somewhere else?

> Last time I tried (April 24) sagemath 8.2.rc4 built and ran the test
> suite, but with too many failing tests. One problem could be the
> mismatch in ipywidgets versions.
I would be happy to fix some of the failing doctests. I am also on
#debian-science (as saraedum) if you want to coordinate what needs to be
done still.


julian