[Python-apps-team] Backporting of cython to oldstable

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Joe Healy wrote:
> This gives three possibilities:

> 1) strip out python3 support for squeeze.
> 2) include python3, but strip out the python3 numpy tests
> 3) backport numpy and python3

> My preferred approach is option 1.

1 or 2 should be fine.  2 might be better in the long run since if that
is just a matter of tests, then we probably could simply 

a. implement release specific handling within stock debian/rules
b. adjust debian/control to build-depend on 
   python3-numpy | python-numpy (<< 1.6.2)

thus avoiding any additional patching to keep track of for squeeze
backport

3 -- would be more pain than gain... who knows how many
applications in squeeze would get broken having so much new(er) numpy
installed.

but marginally related -- myself I would not bother atm to care for
backporting to squeeze -- it is OLD stable and who knows for how much
longer it would be kept supported... I primarily migrated to wheezy

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