Am 29.06.24 um 19:36 schrieb Soren Stoutner:
Scott, On Saturday, June 29, 2024 8:58:09 AM MST Scott Kitterman wrote:I would say no. Distutils is going to be with us for quite some time, even though it's no longer part of the standard distribution. Scott KCan you please elaborate on this some more? As a maintainer of a couple of packages that use distutils in some fashion I would appreciate understanding the detail of what is happening with distutils in Debian.
A lot of packages in the archive are depending on distutils but do not see any upstream updates over years. We could manage a migration to another Python build system "somehow", but then I think the time until the freeze is to short to fix all these packages if we wanted to drop distutils, beside the other work that is needed to be done until the hard freeze.
-- Regards Carsten