[Pkg-cmake-team] Bug#1024625: cmake-data: FindPython.cmake points to newest Python version, not the default

[Timo Röhling]

Control: tags -1 + pending

* Andrius Merkys <merkys at debian.org> [2022-11-22 14:38]:
>Due to the added support for Python 3.11, CMake's FindPython.cmake no 
>longer returns the default Python version (3.10 currently), but 
>returns the latest one (3.11 currently). Due to this, some packages 
>FTBFS (for example, openstructure and promod3) and some only provide 
>the built object for Python 3.11 which is not the default.
>
>There was a similar bug #945825 during previous Python transition. 
>That was resolved by patching FindPython.cmake to use 'py3versions 
>-d'. I suppose additional logic has to be implemented to allow for 
>default Python version being not the latest available Python version.

I have an improved patch committed to Salsa, I'm just waiting for the
FTP team to approve the split of emacs-cmake-mode. I'm going to give
them a few more days before I consider releasing the bugfix on its
own, if you don't mind.


Cheers
Timo

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