[Debian-science-sagemath] Final touches

[Tobias Hansen]

On 2/19/19 10:36 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Jeroen Demeyer:
>> On 2019-02-19 10:16, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>>> Do we need runtime dependencies on cython and sphinx?
>> That depends on what you want. If you want all doctests to pass, then yes: doctests do depend on Cython and Sphinx.
>>
> We are able to express 3 levels of runtime dependencies in Debian - Depends, Recommends and Suggests. There are no hard rules on what goes where but there is a general convention that Depends is for vital things, Recommends is for "standard" user-level things, and Suggests are totally optional. I would suggest for sagemath:
>
> 1. Depends is for all mathematical functionality.
> 2. Recommends is for extra user-oriented stuff like commands to pretty-print docs.
> 3. Suggests could be for power-user or dev-oriented stuff like additional tools needed to run `sage -t`.
>
> All of these would need to be added to the "Build-Depends" for the sagemath source package since we run the tests during the build.
>
> However if cython/sphinx aren't needed for (1) or (2) then we can avoid having the sagemath binary package depend on them, saving users some disk space.
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> X
>
I think when installing all Recommends, the doctests should pass (as during build). So I'd put cython/sphinx in Recommends. I find Suggests a bit useless because it's not installed by default and I don't think that many people look at this to get ideas what else to install.

Best,

Tobias