Upstream acks that ipykernel works without debugpy, but wants to keep it as a mandatory dependency, see: https://github.com/ipython/ipykernel/pull/767#issuecomment-916913893 --- a/pyproject.toml 2020-02-01 21:00:00.000000000 -0300 +++ b/pyproject.toml 2024-12-23 10:53:39.607541653 -0300 @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ ] requires-python = ">=3.8" dependencies = [ - "debugpy>=1.6.5", "ipython>=7.23.1", "comm>=0.1.1", "traitlets>=5.4.0",