[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#896303: Bug#896303: python3-blockdev: gi.overrides.BlockDev fails to import

[Helmut Grohne]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 08:41:26AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> gi overrides are not supposed to be imported directly.
> Those overrides are in effect if the GObject Introspection machinery is
> in use, in which case the necessary python packages are already installed.

Still it seems that this package is not useful without python3-gi. Thus
a dependency seems warranted. It also means that you cannot use pydoc
and other tooling. I think adding the dependency is a reasonable
compromise.

Still lowering severity is a reasonable thing to do as basically
everyone will pull python3-gi by other means. This issue has little
chance of affecting users practically.

Helmut