Hi, On 2023-07-10 10:09, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2023 at 23:00:01 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > > The underlying cause is an additional feature > > of meson: > > > > https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-2-0.html#python-module-can-now-compile-bytecode > > > > If this file is not desired in the debian package, please specify your > > preferred value for this meson setting. For example, to avoid compiling > > bytecode as part of `meson install`, you could setup the build system > > with the `-Dpython.bytecompile=-1` option. > > I think we probably want debhelper's meson build system backend > (/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/meson.pm) to do this > globally for all Meson-built packages, the same way it already handles > cross-compilation, --prefix, --sysconfdir and so on, instead of having to > do it per-package.
I understand the need to fix the issue globally on the debhelper or meson side, and I have seen the bug #1042398. From my understanding we won't have a solution soon, and in the meantime pycairo is not buildable. This affects the riscv64 bootstrap, many packages are blocked behind this. Therefore I wonder if it should be possible to temporarily address the issue directly in pycairo by passing -Dpython.bytecompile=-1 at the configure step. I can offer to do a NMU if it can spare you some work. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://aurel32.net
