Control: tag -1 - wontfix Control: tag -1 + buster sid Hi Jim,
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:18:43AM +0200, jim_p wrote: > Package: python3 > Version: 3.6.4-1 > Followup-For: Bug #718819 > > Dear Maintainer, > > First of all, thank you for merging my report (893477) with this one. It seems > that the python3 package is a better place to make that report, although I > still think that dpkg-dev is the source of my issue. No, non-development packages pulling in dpkg-dev through python3 and dh-python is due to the spurious dependency of python3 on dh-python. > Forth, can't you just make dpkg-dev an OPTIONAL depencency for dh-python? > Making it a recommended one would still make apt install it on systems that > are > configured to install recommended packages by default, which in turn is the > default behaviour of apt. As far as I understand, dh-python does require functionality from dpkg-dev to function at all, so a hard-dependency is required. However, your issue can be fixed by removing the (circular) dependency of python3 on dh-python; as Apollon noted in a previous mail [0], this requires a Mass Bug Filling as hundreds of packages still use dh_python3 without depending on dh-python. [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718819#39 > Fifth, seeing that "wontfix" there means I have little to no hope of changing > your minds, and that makes me really upset. According to the earlier emails in the bug (#718819), the “wontfix” was only in the context of the `stretch` release, as there was too little time left to deal with all the packages that would require fixing. If you take the time to read the previous mails, I do not think you will find anything indicating this isn't considered a bug, or that it will not be fixed; the maintainers only need more time as there are hundreds of impacted packages. As such, I am removing the wontfix tag. Best, nicoo
