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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 14:03:58 -0400
From: Boruch Baum
To: Andreas Henriksson , 727...@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Torsten Landschoff
Subject: Bug#727005: switch python bindings to python3
User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716
Hi Andreas,
I don't foresee this working, because the package depends on swig to
perform the heavy lifting for the python bindings, and debian currently
packages only version 3 of swig, which as far as I can tell, does not
support python3...
Version 4 of swig does seem to support python3, using a new command-line
option `-py3`.
I'm cc'ing Torsten Landschoff on this bug, as he
is llisted as the debian maintainer for the swig package.
@Torsten - Am I correct about python3 support in swig3? Is debian
planning on soon updating the package to version 4 (ie. before debian
drops support for python2)? Do you have any suggestions or pointers for
us?
On 2019-10-24 22:27, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + patch
>
> Hello,
>
> Please see attached patch with my naive attempt at porting libhdate
> to build python3 bindings instead of python2.
>
> This seems to work with the patch I'm about to post to the only
> reverse build-dependency bsdmainutils in #936244 but you should
> probably review it carefully anyway since I'm not really sure
> what I'm doing here.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
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