severity -1 normal

Hi Sven,

Quoting Sven Mueller (2021-02-24 19:02:41)
> /usr/lib/cdbs/waf-unpack is using /usr/bin/python and it's syntax is 
> Python 2 only.
> I have no clue what a WAF is, so I didn't spend time trying to fix 
> this issue, sorry.
> 
> Marking as serious as Python 2.7 is EOL and 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal clearly says that packages are 
> not allowed to rely on it.
> cdbs also doesn't depend on python-is-python2, which could be argued 
> to allow this usage, so it is actually broken in Bullseye.

Severity serious is appropriate for any packages actually using that 
waf-unpack script, but not for CDBS offering that script.

At least that's my personal opinion - the CDBS maintainers obviously 
have the final say on this...¹


 - Jonas


¹ I have stepped down as maintainer of CDBS.

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