On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 08:39 +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Tobias Hansen <than...@debian.org> > > * Package name : rpy2-2.8 > Version : 2.8.6 > Upstream Author : Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> > * URL : https://rpy2.bitbucket.io/ > * License : GPL-2+ > Programming Lang: C, Python > Description : Python interface to the GNU R language and environment > > This Debian package provides RPy2, a very simple yet robust Python interface > to the GNU R Programming Language. It can manage different types of R objects, > and can execute arbitrary R functions, including graphic functions. Rpy2 is a > rewrite and extension of the older RPy interface. > > Rpy2 is already in Debian, however Rpy2 2.9 no longer supports Python 2, so > the Python 2 package was recently removed from Debian. Since sagemath depends > on rpy2 while using Python 2, this package reintroduces the Python 2 version > of > Rpy2, based on the 2.8 series.
We're aiming to remove Python 2 from Debian, so it doesn't make sense to introduce another reverse dependency on it. sagemath should be changed to work with Python 3 only. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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