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

[Erik Bray]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:02 PM Julian Rüth <julian.rueth at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Hi,

Sorry for responding to an old-ish message, but I'm just back from
vacation.  I am also happy to help out anywhere possible with failing
doctests in the sagemath Debian package.  Please point me in the right
direction to any list of open issue if it exists.

Thanks,
E