On July 14, 2025 thus sayeth Yannic Moog:
> To make it work with python 3.5 and 3.6, need type hints from the
> typing module.
>
> Reported-by: Tim Harvey <thar...@gateworks.com>
> Fixes: 21bc3433a43d ("binman: rework dropping absent entries from packaged
> image")
> Signed-off-by: Yannic Moog <y.m...@phytec.de>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - drop newline changes
> - Link to v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250711-binman-typing-fix-v1-1-66ab07501...@phytec.de
> ---
> tools/binman/etype/cbfs.py | 3 ++-
> tools/binman/etype/mkimage.py | 3 ++-
> tools/binman/etype/section.py | 3 ++-
> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/cbfs.py b/tools/binman/etype/cbfs.py
> index
> 5879f377231bf94697bea97c3cfc3a2515665b8f..c5e77f3a0df22ff768aa7254e4dd9ecbe6f81684
> 100644
> --- a/tools/binman/etype/cbfs.py
> +++ b/tools/binman/etype/cbfs.py
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
> #
>
> from collections import OrderedDict
> +from typing import Dict
It's been a while from my Python days so I'm still trying to understand
what's going on, but my understanding is the 'typing' module is
considered deprecated after Python 3.9 with PEP 589[0]
It seems like we're asked to use:
from __future__ import annotations
~Bryan
[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/
