[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#1147255: clamav-cvdupdate: has a runtime dependency on to-be-removed python3-pkg-resources

[Alexandre Detiste]

Package: clamav-cvdupdate
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: serious

Dear Maintainer,


clamav-cvdupdate: has a runtime dependency on to-be-removed python3-pkg-resources.

pkg_resources module is removed in setuptools v84 (experimental)
which is planned to be part of forky

After a quick glance a the code, this dependecy seems totaly  unnecessary nowadays.

tchet at quieter:/tmp/clamav-cvdupdate-1.2.0$ grep pkg.res -r
debian/control:Depends: python3-pkg-resources, ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
debian/changelog:  * Add missing depends on python3-pkg-resources
tchet at quieter:/tmp/clamav-cvdupdate-1.2.0$

See: /usr/bin/cvdupdate

# for compatibility with easy_install; see #2198
__requires__ = 'cvdupdate==1.2.0'

try:
    from importlib.metadata import distribution
except ImportError:
    try:
        from importlib_metadata import distribution
    except ImportError:
        from pkg_resources import load_entry_point



Greetings

Alexandre