On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:22:04AM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: src:kicad > Version: 5.1.4+dfsg1-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: sid bullseye > User: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: py2removal > > Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove > Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html [...]
It seems the kicad package has already (mostly) been switched over to python3. The only python2 related things I could spot is the libpython-stdlib build-dependency. This seems to be something lingering from a long time ago which maybe just isn't relevant anymore. I tried to find the original reason it was introduced and in debian/changelog entry for 4.0.2+dfsg1-3 I found the following pretty cryptic message: * added a build-dependency on libpython-stdlib, which should not harm for most architectures, and might be necessary on a few ones. Maybe this should be switched over to libpython3-stdlib now that everything else uses python3, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it should just be dropped because the cryptic description kind of smells like a bogus excuse to me. Could kicad maintainers please comment on what you think? Regards, Andreas Henriksson