Bug#913069: python3-arcus + python3-savitar missing in the transition page, but uninstallable

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.7-default.html
> > says: "Affected: .build-depends ~ /python3-dev/"
> > 
> > But that doesn't suffice, there's likely a "| .build-depends ~
> > /python3-all-dev/" missing.
> 
> That would introduce a lot of false positives, because most packages that
> build-dep on python3-all-dev are not affected by the default change, as they
> should already build for all the supported versions, including python3.7. I
> would prefer to handle this via
> 
> is_affected: .depends ~ /python3 (<</
> 
> or similar.

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

> Both packages binNMUed.

Thanks!

libsavitar seems to have worked well, but libarcus FTBFS on many, but
not all architectures. I filed a bug report to track this one:
https://bugs.debian.org/914953

Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Anyway, I'm confident we will find such weird causes other ways.

q.e.d. ;-)

> > Affected source package is e.g. libarcus whose binary package
> > python3-arcus is currently uninstallable, but has no python3-dev in
> > the build-dependencies:
> > 
> >   Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.2.1), cmake (>= 2.8.12), dh-python,
> >    libprotobuf-dev (>= 3.0.0), libprotoc-dev (>= 3.0.0),
> >    protobuf-compiler (>= 3.0.0), python3-all-dev, python3-sip-dev
> 
> That's a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/905803
> 
> > The same counts for python3-savitar and src:libsavitar:
> > 
> >   Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.2.1), cmake (>= 2.8.12), dh-python,
> >    libpugixml-dev (>= 1.7), python3-all-dev, python3-sip-dev (>=
> >    4.19.12+dfsg-1) | python3-sip-dev (<< 4.19.11+dfsg-1)
> 
> And another bug: https://bugs.debian.org/909730

Thanks for referring to these bug reports!

		Regards, Axel
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