Scott,
On Saturday, June 29, 2024 8:58:09 AM MST Scott Kitterman wrote:
I would say no. Distutils is going to be with us for quite some time, even >> though it's no longer part of the standard distribution.
Scott K
Can you please elaborate on this some more? As a maintainer of a couple of packages that use distutils in some fashion I would appreciate understanding the detail of what is happening with distutils in Debian.
We could manage a migration to another Python build system
"somehow", but then I think the time until the freeze is to short
to fix all these packages if we wanted to drop distutils, beside
the other work that is needed to be done until the hard freeze.
Here I was precisely asking about the remaining open 46 bugs [0]Make sense.
that ask to remove the (mostly stale) "python3-distutils" dependencies.
python3-distutils has been removed from Ubuntu since 24.04 [1]
and a lot of these 46 packages carry there these single line patch: [2]
while some Debian packages are not in Ubuntu at all too.
Making these bugs RC now seems like a reasonable idea.
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python3.12;users=debian-python@lists.debian.org;include=subject%3Adistutils
[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python3-distutils
[2] https://patches.ubuntu.com/d/docker-pycreds/docker-pycreds_0.3.0-1.1ubuntu1.patch
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