Package: python3-cffi Version: 2.0.0-1 Severity: normal python3-cffi has components that require setuptools (for distutils),
For example, get_extension in ffiplatform.py _shimmed_dist_utils, which explicitly imports distutils and raises an Exception if it is not available. So this affects client programs that use cffi with extensions. An example is dolfinx-mpc (python3-dolfinx-mpc), which uses fenics-ffcx (python3-ffcx), which uses extensions with cffi. Previously python3-setuptools was automatically installed. I'm not sure whether it was installed by the standard python installation, or by some other specific package. python3.13 was recently updated but doesn't mention removing any dependency on python3-setuptools such that dolfinx-mpc was recently passing tests in testing and unstable e.g. https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/dolfinx-mpc/64908895/log.gz https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/d/dolfinx-mpc/65108929/log.gz Something has changed in the last 3 days, such that python3-setuptools is no longer automatically installed in unstable, and therefore dolfinx-mpc has started failing tests in unstable https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/d/dolfinx-mpc/65235953/log.gz cffi is emitting an exception due to the missing distutils package: 128s except Exception as ex: 128s if sys.version_info >= (3, 12): 128s > raise Exception("This CFFI feature requires setuptools on Python >= 3.12. Please install the setuptools package.") from ex 128s E Exception: This CFFI feature requires setuptools on Python >= 3.12. Please install the setuptools package. 128s 128s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cffi/_shimmed_dist_utils.py:40: Exception Since it is cffi that directly uses distutils (in _shimmed_dist_utils.py), does the error mean that python3-cffi should be declaring an explicit Depends: python3-setuptools ? -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.16.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages python3-cffi depends on: ii python3 3.13.7-1 ii python3-cffi-backend 2.0.0-1 ii python3-pycparser 2.23-1 python3-cffi recommends no packages. Versions of packages python3-cffi suggests: ii python3-dev 3.13.7-1 -- no debconf information
