On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 07:05:12PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:

Am 05.02.21 um 01:51 schrieb Darrick J. Wong:

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 01:31:23AM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:

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xfsprogs participates in dependency loops relevant to architecture
bootstrap. Identifying easily droppable dependencies, it was found
that xfsprogs does not use dh-python in any way.

scrub/xfs_scrub_all.in and tools/xfsbuflock.py are the only python
scripts in xfsprogs.  We ship the first one as-is in the xfsprogs
package and we don't ship the second one at all (it's a debugger tool).

AFAICT neither of them really use dh-python, right?

That is right. dh-python is generally used at build time to generate
packages with Python modules, i.e., with files in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages. That is not the case in xfsprogs.

For xfsprogs, python3 is only a runtime dependency and that is defined in
the control file as well.

<nod> /me finally figures out exactly what dh_python does--I thought it
was required for any package shipping any python anything, but I guess
it's only for building and prepping library code and hence not needed
for our single python script in /usr/sbin, so:

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

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Reported-by: Helmut Grohne <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Bastian Germann <redacted>