Bug#967118: 0ad: Unversioned Python removal in sid/bullseye

[Ludovic Rousseau]

I tried to rebuild 0ad without python installed.

The build fails with:
[...]
Building SpiderMonkey...

SpiderMonkey build options: --enable-shared-js --disable-tests --without-intl-api
--enable-shared-js --disable-tests --without-intl-api
[...]
checking for full perl installation... yes
checking for python2.7... no
checking for python... no
configure: error: python was not found in $PATH
[...]

This is with SpiderMonkey from mozjs-38.2.1.

The problem should be solved when 0ad will support a more recent version
of SpiderMonkey.

The problem is already knwon upstream.
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/5694

Bye

On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:27:36 +0000 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:0ad
> Version: 0.0.23.1-4
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid bullseye
> User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: py2unversioned
> 
> Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
> Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
> 
> We will keep some Python2 package as discussed in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2020/07/msg00039.html
> but removing the unversioned python packages python-minimal, python,
> python-dev, python-dbg, python-doc.
> 
> Your package either build-depends, depends on one of those packages.
> Please either convert these packages to Python3, or if that is not
> possible, replaces the dependencies on the unversioned Python
> packages with one of the python2 dependencies (python2, python2-dev,
> python2-dbg, python2-doc).
> 
> Please check for dependencies, build dependencies AND autopkg tests.
> 
> If there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
> #debian-python, or the debian-python at lists.debian.org mailing list.
> 
>