[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#894903: Bug#894898: please drop the runtime dependency on python3-distutils

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 03:52:01PM +0200, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> 
> The new dependency on distutils was introduced because of the following
> test failure:
> 
>   https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/i/iva/52349/log.gz
> 
> (or for ariba)
> 
>   https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/a/ariba/42898/log.gz
> 
> Since that happened to several of my Python-based packages, I figured
> that this was a change in how modules were distributed throughout the
> Debian packages that would now require python3-distutils to get the
> missing 'LooseVersion' object that was complained about.
> As distutils was not found in the error message, I just added the
> runtime dep on distutils to fix the problem. I must admit I'm not too
> intimately familiar with the Pythonisms here, so that was the end of the
> story for me.
> 
> I will verify that the dependency is no longer required by running the
> autopkgtests locally and remove it with my next upload.

May be rather adding it to test-depends could be a way to go?

Kind regards

     Andreas. 

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