A few people are already working on kodi 19, and packages will start to appear in a few days in experimental.
Actually there are related packages in NEW: dav1d was accepted a couple days ago, shairplay and libudfread. They are not compulsory dependencies, so not strictly blocking, but they were uploaded for kodi to link against them. On Sun, 5 Jul 2020, 5:51 pm Nicholas D Steeves, <nstee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:22:18AM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Package: src:kodi > > Version: 2:17.6+dfsg1-4 > > 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 > > > > Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2 > > in the autopkg tests. Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue > > by one of the following actions. > > > > [snip] > > This bug will be solved when updating to Kodi ≥ 19, which prominently > declares it migrated to Python 3. Of course some plugins might not be > py3 ready, so it's probably time to stage the kodi-without-py2 > packages in experimental and report bugs upstream. > > The Python Team is moving ahead with making at py2 dep RC for low > popcon leaf packages this week, and while there isn't a roadmap > (afaik), I suspect this bug will become serious this fall (2020). > > Thanks, > Nicholas >
