Bug#888571: python3-apt depends on python3 (<< 3.6)

@Axel Beckert

It appears that some debian files have been modified in the meantime in the sources available at https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/python-apt and now we can build python-apt to generate the correct dependencies for python3-apt binary: python3 (<< 3.7), python3 (>= 3.6~),

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:45 PM, jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:

@Axel Beckert

That's wrong. The corresponding sources _are_ shown on
https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/python-apt. It's the files
called python-apt_1.4.0~beta3.dsc and python-apt_1.4.0~beta3.tar.xz

No, you're confused. The whole point of this bug report is that building python-apt from the sources downloaded from https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/python-apt is that the binary python3-apt is incompatible with python3 >= 3.6.
If you try to built the packages from those sources, you'll discover that the version is 1.4.0~beta3, as indicated in debian/changelog.

No. Nowhere in Debian you will find a binary package without an
according source package. Period.

It depends on what you call "sources". If you put the debian folder aside from your definition, then we agree.

That might be an issue of your downloader.

You're right here. I downloaded the python-apt binaries with Google chrome 64.0.3282.119 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Linux.
I have just reported that issue to Google.

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Jean-Christophe Manciot

Jean-Christophe