[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#1083298: Bug#1083298: 389-ds-base: raising the severity, still using the pkg_resources module

[Matthias Klose]

On 10/29/25 19:44, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 29.10.2025 18.59, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 important
>> Control: tags -1 + forky
>>
>> The 389-ds-base package still uses the pkg_resources module.
>>
>> Raising the severity of this issue. At the end of the
>> year 2025, raising the severity again to serious.
>>
>> If the package is a namespace package, then please lower
>> the severity again to normal.
> 
> I have no idea where that dep comes from, grepping through python3- 
> lib389 files or the git tree gives no hits..

it ends up in python3:Depends, might get transformed by dh-python from 
setuptools to pkg-resources.  look in the source for requirements, not 
build requirements. probably an upstream issue as well.