[Python-modules-team] Bug#876761: python3-ipython depends on python-pexpect instead of python3-pexpect

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2017-09-25 11:44:25 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> python3-ipython should Depend: python3-pexpect, not python-pexpect.
>
> It looks like this is due to be fixed already in packaging commit
> 467513c63897c3182ffdc942a03355066d940706, so hopefully it will get
> fixed and released soon.

as a workaround for the moment, i've used equivs to build a placeholder:

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$ cat ipython3-pexpect
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 4.1.0

Package: ipython3-pexpect
Version: 1.0
Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
Depends: python3-pexpect
Provides: python-pexpect
Enhances: python3-ipython
Description: workaround for https://bugs.debian.org/876761
 python3-ipython should Depend: on python3-pexpect, not python-pexpect
$ equivs-build ipython3-pexpect
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now i can install the generated ipython3-pexpect_1.0_all.deb (it showed
up in my $TMPDIR) and then install ipython3 without needing to install
python 2.x.

This is not what we'd really want to have for the long run though --
it'd be great to get this fixed!

     --dkg
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