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From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Packaging/installing jupyter kernels
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 22:40:01 +0200
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On Fri, Aug  5, 2016 at 14:07:51 +0200, Gordon Ball wrote:

> Jupyter has been in experimental for a while and presumably will make it
> to unstable in the not too distant future.
>=20
> Once that is done, what is the correct way for packages providing a
> jupyter kernel to install it?
>=20
>  * 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)
>=20
The 'build-depend on jupyter-core and call kernelspec install during
build' thing is what I've done for ipykernel, IIRC.

Cheers,
Julien