Bug#890231: sagemath should use gdb, not gdb-python2, to be removed for buster

Mon Feb 12 21:42:14 UTC 2018

On 12.02.2018 15:41, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Understood, but the entirety of sagemath is python2 at the moment and doesn't support python3 (upstream is working on it).
> 
> What's the timeframe for removal of gdb-python2 and will there be a gdb-python3 alternative?

gdb is built using python3.  So maybe there is a misunderstanding, but how does
sagemath use python for debugging? Does it add it's own pretty printers so that
it needs python2? How is the gdb usage related to Python2?