Package: file Severity: normal Control: block 936952 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-python@lists.debian.org
Hi, In stable, the file utility (5.34) does not recognize byte-compiled python3 binaries, even though they were generated by the default python3 for that release (3.7.3). The version currently in unstable (5.38) should work. Will you please provide a backport or a security upload? If the first point is not enough, Lintian depends on the identification via 'file' to provide the tag 'source-contains-prebuilt-python-object'. Without it, Lintian cannot test the tag on stable and would likely drop it. Lintian has to stop using python2, which is being removed from Debian, to generate test binaries and must instead rely on python3 even on stable. Lintian cannot resort to python2 on stable alone, because python3 stores byte-compiled binaries in a different location (__pycache__). Kind regards Felix Lechner
