Re: packages that use dh_python{2,3} but don't depend on dh-python
On 27.03.2018 18:39, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Matthias Klose, 2018-03-27]
>> On 26.03.2018 19:32, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here's a list of packages that will FTBFS soon if dh-python will not be
>>> added to Build-Depends (it's time to drop dh-python from python3's
>>> Depends and old version of dh_python2 from python package).
>>>
>>> http://people.debian.org/~piotr/dh_python3_without_dh-python.list
>>> http://people.debian.org/~piotr/dh_python3_without_dh-python.ddlist
>>> http://people.debian.org/~piotr/dh_python2_without_dh-python.list
>>> http://people.debian.org/~piotr/dh_python2_without_dh-python.ddlist
>>>
>>> The plan is to report bugs first and follow up with changes in -defaults
>>> packages in April or May.
>>
>> These lists have way to many false positives. So please, don't file bug reports
>> before checking these manually.
>
> can you name some so that I can try to figure out what went wrong?
yes. please see below for a description of such packages. Or you might share the
approach how you did construct those lists you posted.
>> You have to exclude all these source packages using python/python3 as a b-d only
>> and which don't build any binary packages without any python/python3 dependency
>> in the packages, e.g. gcc-defaults.
>
> gcc-defaults is not a false positive, it calls `dh_python2 -plibgcj-common` but doesn't
> depend on dh-python
well, this one not anymore.
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