Hello Andreas,
Am 28.10.19 um 15:31 schrieb Andreas Henriksson:
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?
I'm back from the miniDebConf Vaumarcus just right now. :)
For a long time I was now able to work also on various other parts of
the packaging of KiCad while the mDC. So I can answer your question
hopefully.
I also don't now why George has added this dependency and it was
probably really not needed and I will simply just remove it.
The src:kicad package has a dependency on python3-all since January 2019
which is pulling in python3.7 (currently). This then is depending on
libpython3.7-dev so this library is installed and pulled anyway.
Removing libpython-dev will as far I see remove the only direct
dependency on Python2. But there are more indirect dependencies on
Python2 e.g by dblatex and asciidoc.
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Regards
Carsten Schoenert
