control: tags -1 important (I don't remember how to tag it as experimental only, and I don't want autoremoval to start kicking!)
> We just need to add a test for python3 >= 3.8 and set PYTHON_LIBRARY > accordingly. yes, but I don't usually want to add more code to rules file, they are usually kept forever :) But if you plan to backport, so its probably something useful to do. BTW, I tried a plain cmake .. && make, and python was correctly detected... Maybe its time to drop that check completely? (sorry if I didn't understand correctly the reason for it!) Gianfranco