[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#952797: gpgme1.0 FTCBFS: python3.8 changed interface again

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sat 2020-02-29 14:06:11 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> gpgme1.0 fails to cross build from source, because with python3.8 the
> interface was changed again. I do see that this is frustrating as it has
> already resulted in a native ftbfs on gpgme1.0. However, I'm not the
> Python maintainer and even Matthias' attempts at filing this issue
> upstream was unsuccessful thus far. As far as I understand the current
> situation, the "m" is dropped for good and not about to come back
> anytime soon. So hope is that this is a one-time migration. Could you
> just adapt it with your next maintainer upload?

sure, i'll make that change today.  it's frustrating, but i'll just keep
playing catchup.  Thus is the sisyphean nature of software maintenance.

> gpgme1.0 only uses the most recent Python version, so we don't have to
> port <=3.7 here.

What do you mean by this?
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/python3-gpg/filelist includes
modules for python 3.7 and 3.8. Do you think it doesn't or shouldn't for
some reason?

     --dkg
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