[Python-modules-team] Bug#887101: ipython3: new version available upstream

[Christoph Terasa]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:46:38 -0500 Jeff Cliff <jeffrey.cliff at gmail.com> 
wrote:
 > Package: ipython3
 > Version: 5.5.0-1
 > Severity: normal
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > There are new versions of ipython3 available upstream.
 >
 > * The latest released version is 6.2.1 ( 
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/releases/tag/6.2.1 )
 >
 > * The version in Debian right now is 5.5.0 which is from Sep 15, 2017.
 > There's been about 200 changes since that time upstream.
 >
 > Thanks for your time
 > Jeff Cliff
 >
 > -- System Information:
 > Debian Release: 9.3
 > APT prefers stable-updates
 > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 
'stable')
 > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
 >
 > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
 > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
 > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
 > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
 >
 > Versions of packages ipython3 depends on:
 > pn python3-ipython <none>
 >
 > ipython3 recommends no packages.
 >
 > ipython3 suggests no packages.
 >
 >

Are there any news on this issue? I realize that 6.0+ are the first 
versions incompatible to python2, is this blocking the adoption of the 
latest upstream version(s)? Upstream just recently got updated to 
version 7.0.1.


Christoph