[Debian-science-sagemath] Help needed to backport jupyter-notebook (Was: Help needed for backporting node-esprima (Was: Backporting sagemath))

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ximin,

On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 11:37:00AM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> > Do you have any further hints for this packaging magic? ;-)
> 
> It looks like font-awesome 4.2.0 contains slightly different files from 4.7.0. Perhaps it would be easier to backport 4.7.0 rather than trying to continue with 4.2.0. I should have mentioned this in my last email as well, but I forgot.

I admit this idea came up to me as well.  I now uploaded
fonts-font-awesome_4.7.0~dfsg-1~bpo8+1 and tried to build ipywidgets
against this but it turns out that this very package is quite resistant
against the backporting attempt.  Now I get:


...
running install_egg_info
running egg_info
creating ipywidgets.egg-info
writing requirements to ipywidgets.egg-info/requires.txt
writing ipywidgets.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to ipywidgets.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to ipywidgets.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'ipywidgets.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Killed
E: pybuild pybuild:283: install: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=137: /usr/bin/python setup.py install --root /build/ipywidgets-5.2.2/debian/tmp 
dh_auto_install: pybuild --install --test-pytest -i python{version} -p 2.7 --dest-dir /build/ipywidgets-5.2.2/debian/tmp returned exit code 13
debian/rules:37: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 25
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/ipywidgets-5.2.2'
debian/rules:7: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 2
...


When the line

   writing manifest file 'ipywidgets.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

was printed the building machine slowed down a lot and I've seen all
signals for an infinite loop.  I left the machine alone for hours and
when coming back the "Killed" was printed.
 
Any clue how to solve this?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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