Re: Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Python 2.7 was removed from Debian unstable in December 2022 [1]. The
motivations for the removal are explained in [2].
I supposed so, just asked for confirmation. I don't care much about the
motivations - I need it as a build dependency. I understand a minimal
build only python2 retained for some time (no more?). ArcticFox is not
the only app depending python2.7 generally, butperhaps in the Debian DB?
I know Firefox eventually migrated to py3, but it took a long time and
currently I don't have the resources to folow it - simply because I
don't know python and don't know what is needed.
If still needed, the package can be rebuilt from the older sources
against the current updated shared library t64 packages [3].
For now, it is the best solution for me. Longer-term I need a better
solution...
No problem for me trying to rebuild, but I never built something which
did not have a "debian source".
I suppose I might need some recursion and tweaking, needing also
libpython2.7-stdlib and perhaps other dependencies I will discover.
From [3] I get 3 files. I put them in a directory.
I also checked https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python2.7 which
shows the same thing.
I expected to be able to download a single source package, like
"deb-src" had.
So I run
$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
but get:
dpkg-buildpackage: error: cannot open file debian/changelog: No such
file or directory
I clearly miss some stupid setup setp. Can you guess off-head what I need?
Thanks,
Riccardo
[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027108
[2]https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal
[3]http://snapshot.debian.org/package/python2.7/
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