Bug#1008520: cctbx hard-codes the python version in it's local patches

[Neil Williams]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:01:02 +0200 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: src:cctbx
> Version: 2021.12+ds1-3
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid bookworm
> User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: python3.10
> 
> cctbx hard-codes the python version in it's local patches, and thus
> breaks with python 3.10 as the default python version. Please don't
> do that.

What is the justification for this severity? Other packages need
patches to support new versions of dependencies.

I will investigate how to get SCons to pick up the boostpython system
libs again but it may be necessary to retain the current patch method
and I don't see why that is against Policy. It's not pretty, I agree,
but I have not (yet) found an alternative.

-- 
Neil Williams
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