On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:06:29PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 11/25/20 4:54 PM, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> > I considered simply dropping the xxdiff-scripts package, but as the
> > Python2 interpreter seems to stay around for the bullseye release, I
> > think it is in the interest of our users to keep xxdiff-scripts until
> > upstream gets around to make the conversion to Python3 or Python2 goes
> > away for good. To that effect, I'm lowering the severity of this bug.
> > I've uploaded a modified xxdiff that does not depend on the python
> > package or the existence of /usr/bin/python.
> 
> the security only wants to have python2 build dependencies, not any runtime
> dependency.

I see - that might be useful to have documented somewhere, say on
https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal?

Anyway, I'll drop xxdiff-scripts then until they've been converted.

Florian

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