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From: Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>
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Subject: Re: Packaging/installing jupyter kernels
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 22:30:02 +0200
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On 05/08/2016 20:57, Gordon Ball wrote:
> On 05/08/16 15:17, Julien Puydt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05/08/2016 14:07, Gordon Ball wrote:
>>> Jupyter has been in experimental for a while and presumably will make it
>>> to unstable in the not too distant future.
>>
>> I don't think that will happen that early... there are a few things not
>> ready yet and what is there isn't perfect yet. Help is welcome!
>
> I might be able to help. What are the outstanding issues/blockers?
>
> (I'm not actually a DPMT/PAPT member, but this might be a good time to
> join).

I'm trying to finish nbconvert, with the notebook to come -- last time I 
had a look, we (Debian) were lacking javascript packages. So perhaps you 
need not join the DPMT after all :-P

If you don't feel good with packaging javascript, you could also launch 
ipython (the one in experimental) and try to run a few commands in them. 
You should get a few warnings : those are hints something isn't quite right.

>>
>>> Once that is done, what is the correct way for packages providing a
>>> jupyter kernel to install it?
>>>
>>>  * manually install kernel.json in /usr/share/jupyter/kernels/<pkgname>?
>>>  * build-depend on python3-jupyter-core and call `jupyter kernelspec
>>> install` during build?
>>>  * runtime-depend and install in postinst instead?
>>>  * (something else)
>>
>> No idea.
>
> Example: xonsh (a python-based shell) includes a kernel and tries to
> install it from setup.py (currently disabled by not having jupyter
> available at build time). But it sounds like the question is premature.
>

See above for ideas what to do -- but you can also try to find out what 
the better scheme to ship jupyter kernel is... I don't think anybody 
wondered seriously about it yet. :-)

Cheers,

Snark on #debian-python