[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#936371: dbus-python: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[peter green]

On 27/07/2020 16:31, smcv at debian.org wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 18:01:55 +0100, peter green wrote:
>> dbus-python in testing build-depends on python-gi
>> which is no longer available in testing. This is fixed in
>> unstable but the fix is blocked from migrating to testing by
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965308
> 
> If jackd2 isn't fixed for a while, we'll have to choose one of these:
> 
> - get jackd2 removed from testing
> 
> - revert the removal of python-dbus, but drop the python-gi B-D
>    and the python-gi dependency of the python2 autopkgtest
>    (test coverage will be reduced, and python-dbus will be of
>    limited practical use)

What exactly do you mean by "limited practical use", what are the
consequences of running jackd2 with python-dbus installed but
python-gi not installed (I notice that python-dbus recommends
python-gi)

> - revert the removal of python-gi (revert pygobject 3.36.0-4)

I went with this approach in raspbian, it turned out not to be as simple
as a revert though. A debdiff is at
http://debdiffs.raspbian.org/main/p/pygobject/pygobject_3.36.0-4%2Brpi1.debdiff
if people want to go down this road.