Package: python3-libsvm Version: 3.24+ds-3 Severity: important Hi!
The libsvm package has changed interface and can not be used anymore. With the python3-libsvm package from sid the following happens: python3 -c 'import svmutil' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/svmutil.py", line 8, in <module> from commonutil import * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'commonutil' I think that python3-libsvm should use the same Python package structure as upstream. The Debian package pushes svm.py and svmutil.py directly into /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages . In the Debian package the file commonutil.py is missing (it is available in the source package): $ ls libsvm-3.24+ds/python Makefile README commonutil.py svm.py svmutil.py Putting commonutil.py directly under /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages would be a bad idea, I think, because of possible name clashes. Upstream is actually creating a libsvm namespace. When installing libsvm using pip, the package layout is the following: libsvm ├── __init__.py ├── commonutil.py ├── svm.py └── svmutil.py As it stands now, I think the python3-libsvm package is unusable... Thanks for your work! Tiziano -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FORCED_MODULE, TAINT_USER, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python3-libsvm depends on: ii libsvm3 3.24+ds-3 ii python3 3.8.2-3 python3-libsvm recommends no packages. python3-libsvm suggests no packages. -- no debconf information