[Pkg-xen-devel] Python 3 in 4.14 packages

[Elliott Mitchell]

I was trying to test `pygrub` and found the Python 3 version is
definitely broken in the 4.14 packages.  I was able to get the script to
display the help message by adding "/usr/lib/xen-4.14/lib/<triplet>" to
sys.path.

The existing line:
sys.path.insert(1, sys.path[0] + '/../lib/python')

Is distinctly odd, usually this is better expressed:
sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.path[0], "libexec"))

(though I suppose we can assume Linux, but this is Bad Practice)

The way some portions of `pygrub` are packaged are distinctly odd.
Certainly xc.so and xs.so are linked to core Xen libraries and need to be
version-specific.  Yet libfsimage.so appears independant of the Xen
version and should likely track `pygrub`, rather than matching the system
Xen version.

I may get a chance to chase things down better later.


In other news, Julien Grall's latest set of 4 patches are valuable on ARM
ACPI systems (RP4 with Tianocore) and having those in the next Debian
will be be high-value.


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