I will note that my install is currently having issues with gnutls.
```
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
connman : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
dirmngr : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
gkrellm : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not installable
glib-networking : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
libapt-pkg-perl : Depends: libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 2.1.20) but it is not installable
libarchive13 : Depends: libnettle8 but it is not installable
libavformat59 : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
libcups2 : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
libcurl3-gnutls : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
Depends: libnettle8 but it is not installable
libgnutls-openssl27 : Depends: libgnutls30 (= 3.7.9-2) but it is not
installable
libnm0 : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.2) but it is not installable
libopenconnect5 : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
Depends: libhogweed6 but it is not installable
libvte-2.91-0 : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.2) but it is not installable
network-manager : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.2) but it is not installable
ntfs-3g : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.2) but it is not installable
python3-samba : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not installable
samba : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not installable
samba-common-bin : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not installable
samba-dsdb-modules : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not installable
samba-libs : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5) but it is not installable
samba-vfs-modules : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not installable
wget : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libnettle8 but it is not installable
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin : Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but it is
not installable
```
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 3:54 PM Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote:
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
>
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Python 2.7 was removed from Debian unstable in December 2022 [1]. The
> > motivations for the removal are explained in [2].
>
> I supposed so, just asked for confirmation. I don't care much about the
> motivations - I need it as a build dependency. I understand a minimal
> build only python2 retained for some time (no more?). ArcticFox is not
> the only app depending python2.7 generally, butperhaps in the Debian DB?
> I know Firefox eventually migrated to py3, but it took a long time and
> currently I don't have the resources to folow it - simply because I
> don't know python and don't know what is needed.
>
> >
> > If still needed, the package can be rebuilt from the older sources
> > against the current updated shared library t64 packages [3].
>
> For now, it is the best solution for me. Longer-term I need a better
> solution...
> No problem for me trying to rebuild, but I never built something which
> did not have a "debian source".
> I suppose I might need some recursion and tweaking, needing also
> libpython2.7-stdlib and perhaps other dependencies I will discover.
>
>
> From [3] I get 3 files. I put them in a directory.
>
> I also checked https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python2.7 which
> shows the same thing.
>
> I expected to be able to download a single source package, like
> "deb-src" had.
>
>
> So I run
>
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
>
> but get:
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: cannot open file debian/changelog: No such
> file or directory
>
> I clearly miss some stupid setup setp. Can you guess off-head what I need?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Riccardo
>
> > [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027108
> > [2]https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal
> > [3]http://snapshot.debian.org/package/python2.7/
>
