[Python-modules-team] Bug#887101: Your mail

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 15:15:57 +0000 Gordon Ball <gordon at chronitis.net> wrote:
> It is planned to ship the IPython LTS branch (5.x) for buster,
> maintaining single-source python2 and python3 compatibility. IPython and
> related tools 6.x and later drop python2 support. We'll aim to update
> and python3 versions and retain the existing python2 versions of
> interactive tools only (ipython, ipykernel and dependencies) in
> bullseye.

any update on this plan? i think you can follow what's been done for
numpy/matplotlib: 2 source packages, 1 for python2 and the newest one
for python3 support.

i believe qtconsole new upstream release is currently blocked by the
lack a newer ipython release

thanks!