[Python-apps-team] Bug#889293: src:alot: Please drop "Use file-magic instead of python-magic" patch, alot will FTBFS soon

[Christoph Biedl]

Package: src:alot
Version: 0.6-2
Severity: important

python-magic maintainer here ...

Dear Maintainer,

as announced in debian-devel two weeks ago, the python-magic libary
will switch upstream, from the one provided by src:file to the one
found in PyPI, written by Adam Hupp.

A rebuild of the known rdeps showed src:alot will no longer build then.
Since however alot is currently patched to work with the file-based
implementation, this can easily be cured by just dropping that patch.

The new python-magic implementation will hit unstable very soon,
causing your package to FTBFS. So I'm asking you to prepare for this by

* droping 0002-debian-Use-file-magic-instead-of-python-magic-in-set.patch,
* adding a versioned build dependency on python-magic (>= 2:0.4.15) as
  a hint for backporters

Sorry if this is a bit on short notice.

    Christoph

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