Hello Andreas and Ben,

2016-05-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Andreas Bombe <a...@debian.org>:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:59:06PM -0700, Ben Longbons wrote:

>> The gdb-python2 package does not actually contain a version of gdb
>> linked to python2. Rather, it is a byte-for-byte identical copy of the
>> /usr/bin/gdb shipped in the gdb package, which links to python3.
>>
>> I noticed that gdb-python2 has "Depends: libpython3.4", I presume this
>> is automatic from the list of linked shared libs.
>
> I have verified on snapshot.debian.org that gdb-python2 has been broken
> since it was introduced. Basically the python2 linked version gets built
> and then ignored. There were more problems such as files missing in
> gdb-python2.

Thanks very much for the fix, it just came in the right time. I am
planning to prepare a GDB release soon and I was considering on
dropping gdb-python2. However, now that there seems to be interest on
it, I'd like to know what use cases do you have for gdb-python2 and if
you really think we should release stretch with it and why.

> I have fixed these in the attached patch and will shortly upload a NMU
> with this fix to DELAYED/5-day.

It is probably not needed, we (pkg-gdb team) plan to do an upstream
update and few packaging changes.

Please let me know your gdb-python2 use case, that'd be quite helpful. TIA.

Best regards,
-- 
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