[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1076314: qiime hard-codes python 3.11 without depending on it

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Matthias,

Am Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 10:57:14AM +0200 schrieb Matthias Klose:
> Package: src:qiime
> Version: 2024.5.0-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid trixie
> 
>   * Only build for Python 3.11 until upstream catches up with Python
>     3.12.
> 
> dear debian-med, please don't do that. It doesn't help to hide problems,
> using 3.11, but not reflecting this in the dependencies.  If a package
> doesn't have support for 3.12, then it gets removed from testing.

Just to let me understand correctly:  Its definitely a mistake to
(Build-)Depend: python3-all.  However, am I understand you correctly
that (Build-)Depend from python3.11 could save the packag in testing?
Upstream has announce support for Python3.12 in autumn - so this will
probably be solved before the freeze.  But your bug report is not fully
clear to me.

Kind regards
     Andreas.

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