[pkg-uWSGI-devel] Bug#865224: uwsgi: ftbfs with multiple supported python3 versions

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 06:56:52PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, July 14, 2017 12:37:12 AM Niko Tyni wrote:

> > It looks like a cdbs issue to me,

> > A workaround that seems to help is putting
> >  X-Python3-Version: 3.5
> > in the Source paragraph of debian/control to prevent it from trying 3.6
> > at all. This makes the build work for me (but doesn't help the python3.6
> > transition of course.)
> > 
> > This is the worst blocker for the Perl 5.26 transition too (uwsgi needs
> > to be rebuilt because uwsgi-plugin-psgi links against libperl), so even
> > a temporary ugly workaround would be appreciated from this side :)
> 
> Changing the python3-all-dev build-depends to python3-dev would accomplish the 
> same thing while allowing a binNMU to work when we make python3.6 default.  

Thanks, that's indeed even better!

> Since this is blocking your work, I would recommend you NMU with that change 

I guess we'll look at an NMU soonish (unless Jonas wants to handle this?)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org