[Debian-med-packaging] Removing pyxb from the Debian archive

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Michael,

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 09:29:07AM +0100, Michael Fladischer wrote:
> I'm maintaining pyxb package which your package python-pbcore build-depends
> on. More than a year ago pyxb upstream has announced to EOL the project with
> no new maintainer in sight[0].
> 
> pyxb is now broken on Debian with Python 3.8 and I do not plan to invest
> more time into it so I filed for removal from the Debian archive[1].
> 
> Checking python-pbcore packaging indicates that pyxb was only initially used
> to create the binding files in pbcore/io/dataset/pyxb but is not imported
> anywhere. As those bindings are not regenerated with pyxb in debian/rules,
> would you consider removing pyxb from Build-Depends, by patching setup.py to
> not include it.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/pabigot/pyxb/issues/100
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946602

Sorry, I simply have no idea how such a patch might work.  Would you
mind opening a bug report about python-pbcore and discuss this here
rather than private mail.  Any patch I could forward tp python-pbcore
authors would be very welcome.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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