On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 04:57:50PM +0200, stefa...@debian.org wrote: > Please add a Build-Depends on python3-setuptools to your package, or migrate > the package's build system away from setuptools/distutils.
The build system doesn't use setuptools/distutils at all; we just relied on it for parsing version strings in one spot. Fixed in https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/4338 which should backport cleanly to 2.19.5. Already addressed in Botan3.
