Source: avahi Version: 0.7-4 Severity: important 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. A version with this change might become available in experimental soon. 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. If our analysis is correct, these packages will need to add a build-dependency on python-gi in future. If your package requires a Python 2 version of the gi module at build time (which it appears it does), 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, similar to python-dbus-dev. If your package does not require a Python 2 version of the gi module at build time, you can just close this bug. This bug's severity will be increased to serious if it is still open when python-gi-dev's dependency on python-gi is removed in unstable. Thanks, smcv
