Help needed (Was: pdb2pqr: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

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Hi,

it seems pdb2pqr is orphaned upstream.  However, it seems to be worth
keeping inside Debian thus I tried my luck to port it to Python3 in
Git[1].  Unfortunately the build runs into

      scons: Building targets ...
      CopySubAction("pdb2pqr.py", "pdb2pqr.py.in")
      scons: *** [pdb2pqr.py] TypeError : a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Action.py", line 1209, in execute
          result = self.execfunction(target=target, source=rsources, env=env)
        File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Action.py", line 1371, in __call__
          return self.parent.actfunc(*args, **kw)
        File "./site_scons/site_init.py", line 123, in CopySubAction
          contents = contents.replace(k, v)
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      scons: building terminated because of errors.

I wonder whether it might just be a scons issue.  Please note that I'm
using scons 3.1.1-4 from experimental that is supposed to run with
Python3.

Any hint would be welcome.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/pdb2pqr

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