Hi all, On 04/05/2018 02:44 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 01:33:09PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Package: src:iva >> Version: 1.0.9+ds-2 >> Tags: patch >> >> please drop the runtime dependency on python3-distutils. It's not needed >> anymore. >> >> patch at >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/363348075/iva_1.0.9+ds-2_1.0.9+ds-4ubuntu1.diff.gz > > Same as for ariba - I neither understand the dependency nor the patch which > does not deal with that dependency.
The new dependency on distutils was introduced because of the following test failure: https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/i/iva/52349/log.gz (or for ariba) https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/a/ariba/42898/log.gz Since that happened to several of my Python-based packages, I figured that this was a change in how modules were distributed throughout the Debian packages that would now require python3-distutils to get the missing 'LooseVersion' object that was complained about. As distutils was not found in the error message, I just added the runtime dep on distutils to fix the problem. I must admit I'm not too intimately familiar with the Pythonisms here, so that was the end of the story for me. I will verify that the dependency is no longer required by running the autopkgtests locally and remove it with my next upload. Thanks for the notification! Cheers Sascha
