Upgrade to Jython 2.5

[Alex Gaynor]

Binary package hint: jython

Jython 2.5 now has a final release with *many* new features. This package should be updated to use the latest Jython.

[Gabriel (gabriel-rossetti)]

Yes, I agree. I'm having to install the version on their site for now, but isn't that what a packaging system is supposed to do, not have us install "raw" versions, enabling easy installation/removal/upgrades, etc? Can someone create a deb, even if it is not maintained by Canonical? They seem a bit slow to include stuff. Thanks!

[David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins)]

Please! This is very old and won't run most Python code in Ubuntu and elsewhere, which requires version 2.3.

Is Debian also stuck on this old version?

[Stu (stu-axon)]

Lucid is out, and were still on really old Jython 2.2.1 at this rate, we'll be asking for 2.6 soon.

[Ivo Majić (ivo.majic)]

I really hope the maintainers will update it in Lucid...we are ages behind...

[Victor Hooi (victorhooi)]

heya,

Yeah, me as well.

Trying to install django-python, seems to require distutils, which is a standard part of Jython 2.5.

It seems a bit ridiculous how outdated this is - Jython 2.2.1 was released back in 2007. And as other people point out, it doesn't work with a lot of things today. *sigh* It's a bit sad to see Ubuntu lagging behind like this.

Cheers,
Victor

[Victor Hooi (victorhooi)]

heya,

Hmm, it says fix released above, on 2010-07-12.

However, as of today (2010-08-04), nearly three weeks later, on Ubuntu Maverick, I just checked "aptitude show jython", and it still shows Jython 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu1.

And http://packages.ubuntu.com seems to show Jython 2.2.1-2ubuntu4 for Lucid, but the Maverick package search seems broken ("Error
more than one suite specified for show_static (dapper dapper-updates dapper-backports hardy hardy-updates hardy-backports intrepid intrepid-updates intrepid-backports jaunty jaunty-updates jaunty-backports karmic karmic-updates karmic-backports lucid)").

Anyhow, can we get some more information on what version exactly it was updated to, and when this might actually start appearing in repositories?

Cheers,
Victor

[MarkieB (ubunt-u-markbenjamin)]

Maverick package search seems to work for me

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=jython&searchon=names&suite=maverick&section=all

Either way, it's apparently stuck at 2.2.1

when jython itself is now at 2.5.2 it's kind of slack, looks as though we'll have to download jython directly for now - although I'll be looking into repackaging the .deb rather than waiting for the debian maintainers :-)

[James_pic (james-pic)]

The "Fix Released" announcement is for the Debian version (upstream).

If you're desperate for Jython 2.5, the Debian unstable version may work ( http://packages.debian.org/sid/jython ), although you also need the updated antlr3 from sid, and I had some issues trying to get it to run some code which worked in Jython 2.2 (I can't say for sure whether this was caused by package incompatibilities or language changes)

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Please keep look on bug #682216.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package jython - 2.5.1-2ubuntu2

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jython (2.5.1-2ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * Stop building the jython-gcj package.

jython (2.5.1-2ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Artur Rona ]
  * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes: (LP: #390403, #682216)
    - debian/ant.properties: Build-Depends on libservlet2.5-java
      instead of libservlet2.4-java.
    - debian/control, debian/rules: Add jython-gcj package.
    - debian/control: Don't use architecture independent build dependencies.
  * debian/control: Build-Depends on libgcj-common, fixes FTBFS
    due to missing file /usr/share/gcj/debian_defaults.

jython (2.5.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added missing build-dependency declaration on jline (closes: #591114)
  * Bumped version of Debian policy compliance to 3.9.1 (nothing to do)
  * sys.executable Python variable is now set by perl launcher
    (closes: #591478)

jython (2.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (closes: #497352)
  * Acknowledged 2.2.1-2.1 NMU.
  * Added Homepage field in control file.
  * libservlet-java is now a suggestion, needed only to
    write servlets in jython
  * Removed the jythonc command, which is no longer available in 2.5.
  * Removed the obsolete html documentation.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:00:10 +0200

[Ross Patterson (rossp)]

Why isn't this in oneiric?