[Debian-science-sagemath] Final touches

[Ximin Luo]

Tobias Hansen:
> 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.
>>

But do end-users really expect "sage -t" to work at run-time?

> 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.
> 

We don't need to fine-tune it too much - the big space saving here is singular-doc. If we can move that to Recommends: then people can avoid installing 240 MB. cython and sagenb themselves pull in way less, I am less fussed about that.

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