Bug#1074440: kodi dies with "PyImport_AppendInittab() may not be called after Py_Initialize()"

[Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de>]

Package: kodi
Version: 2:20.5+dfsg-2+b2

kodi dies immediately with

{harri@cecil:~ (master) 1032} kodi
/usr/bin/kodi: 1: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
kodi: ulimit is unsupported by this shell
libva info: VA-API version 1.21.0
libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error
Fatal Python error: PyImport_AppendInittab: PyImport_AppendInittab() may not be called after Py_Initialize()
Python runtime state: core initialized

Thread 0x00007fa184c006c0 (most recent call first):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1648 in _fill_cache
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1605 in find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1502 in _get_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1528 in find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1262 in _find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1322 in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360 in _find_and_load
Aborted

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/1coowz1/crash_in_pyimport_appendinittab_pyimport/?rdt=36220
this is a regression with python 3.12. If I move back to 3.11 the problem 
disappears.

According to the reddit link the problem has been fixed with kodi 21. Looking
at the code in git this could be commit 1bfa3ef9e3b6d25d581bb1f48f6a740fca1c06cf.


Regards

Harri