Source: python-caja Version: 1.22.1-2 Severity: minor User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: python-gi-dev-945022 Control: block 945022 by -1
Please see https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/pygobject/merge_requests/2 for the latest information on this transition. python-gi-dev contains development files (pkg-config metadata and header file) corresponding to both python-gi and python3-gi. At the moment, python-gi-dev Depends on both python-gi and python3-gi. The GNOME team would like to drop the python-gi dependency, to make the status of Python 2 removal easier to track. The package receiving this bug is one of a few packages that build-depend on python-gi-dev and appear to build Python 2 bindings. However, it appears to build successfully even if python-gi is missing - perhaps because it doesn't have any build-time tests, so if importing 'gi' doesn't actually work, that's never detected. If your package requires a Python 2 version of the gi module at build time now or in the future, please add python-gi to its Build-Depends. If it also requires a Python 3 version of the gi module, it is probably a good idea to add an explicit Build-Depends on python3-gi as well - this will ensure that it doesn't need changes if python-gi-dev subsequently also drops its python3-gi dependency, which would make it similar to python-dbus-dev. If your package does not require a Python 2 version of the gi module at build time and you don't think it is likely to do so in future, you can just close this bug. Similarly, if you drop Python 2 support in unstable (I see you have a Python-3-only version in experimental already), you can close this bug in that upload. Thanks, smcv
