[Debian-science-sagemath] Final touches

[Dima Pasechnik]

cython is certainly an essential capability of Sage, it should be an
essential part.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:06 AM Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/19/19 10:44 AM, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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
>
> I started changing some dependencies in git. Without cython or sagenb the doctests don't run at all, so I kept these in Depends. Still needs more work.
>
> Best,
>
> Tobias
>
>
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