On 10/27/19 7:03 PM, Boruch Baum wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I don't foresee this working, because the package depends on swig to > perform the heavy lifting for the python bindings, and debian currently > packages only version 3 of swig, which as far as I can tell, does not > support python3...
Actually, SWIG supports Python 3 for quite some time: Support was introduced in SWIG 1.3.37 Source: https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/master/RELEASENOTES#L260 AFAICT, only some Python 3.8 specific changes are missing in SWIG 3. > Version 4 of swig does seem to support python3, using a new command-line > option `-py3`. This option is only for type annocation support. See http://swig.org/Doc3.0/SWIGDocumentation.html#Python_nn74 > @Torsten - Am I correct about python3 support in swig3? Is debian > planning on soon updating the package to version 4 (ie. before debian > drops support for python2)? Do you have any suggestions or pointers for > us? See above for Pointers wrt. Python 3 support. Matthias Klose uploaded an NMU to add even Python 3.8 support to swig3. I intend to upload swig4 soonish. Greetings, Torsten
