early +1 maintenance: jupyter-notebook FTBFS, jupyter-client update ahead of debian

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 5:11 PM Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 05:05:00PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > I started working on my +1 maintenance shift with the goal of
> > trailblazing the python 3.12 migration. A few packages sorted already,
> > but jupyter-notebook has me stumped, and I thought I would share this
> > now instead of at the end of the shift.
>
> > src:jupyter-notebook[1] is FTBFS[2] due to a test failure in
> > noble-proposed with src:jupyter-client[3] >= 8. I filed a bug[2] with
> > my findings.
>
> > Upstream and other projects I could find all seem to have settled on
> > pinning jupyter-client to a version < 8. And indeed, if we build
> > jupyter-notebook with jupyter-client from noble
> > release (version 7.4.9-2, same as in debian), then it succeeds.
>
> > I don't know why jupyter-client was updated to 8.6.0[4] ahead of
> > debian. So far, I have exhausted my troubleshooting on this issue. I
> > suppose we could remove src:jupyter-client 8.6.0-0ubuntu1 from
> > noble-proposed, as that could help with the python3 migration.
>
> Given the uploader and the timing, I suspect this was done to get
> jupyter-client itself to be sorted for the python3.12 transition.
>
> Can you verify that the previous version of the package in Ubuntu builds in
> noble?

Both locally and in a ppa with noble-proposed enabled[1],
jupyter-client 7.4.9-2 built, but build-time tests are disabled in
this package.

> See also https://bugs.debian.org/1059658

I'll try a dep8 run, see what happens with today's archive.


1. https://launchpad.net/~ahasenack/+archive/ubuntu/plusoneweek/+packages