[Debichem-devel] Bug#1148465: openbabel: builds only against the default Python version

Andrius Merkys merkys at debian.org
Fri Sep 25 08:12:52 BST 2026


Hello,

On 9/19/26 23:11, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> While rebuilding the python related packages against the Python 3.15rc2
> version we found that openbabel only builds against the default Python
> version.
> 
> This is a problem because it doesn't build the module for Python 3.15,
> making packages that depend on it also unable to build for Python 3.15
> (for example python-emmet-core).
> 
> To fix this, I've made a change that makes openbabel build against all
> supported Python versions.
> 
> I've applied the fix in the sandbox [1] to verify that both openbabel
> and the packages that depend on it build successfully. Please consider
> applying the patch to support the upcoming 3.15 version.
> 
> Setting the severity to important for now. Once Python 3.15 is released,
> it will be added to python3-defaults and this bug will become release
> critical.

Thanks a lot for the patch, having openbabel build for all supported 
python versions is really neat. I would like to wait until the 
auto-openbabel transition is over and upload your fix then.

Andrius



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