On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As of Python 3.8, python C extensions modules should not link to libpython, unless they embed the interpreter in their code. Relevant upstream PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12946 > If your package links to libpython without requiring it, it won't be possible to use the python3-debug binary with your python C extension, unless you recompile the extension against it. > > On Fedora Rawhide, there are at this point 144 packages linking to libpython, many of those possibly without any need for it. > > If your package links to libpython but it does not embed the interpreter, I would like to ask you to unlink it. Usually the fix needs to be done at the package's build system. > > If you are not sure if your package links to libpython, a way to figure this out is to inspect the code for the Py_Initialize and the Py_Finalize calls [0]. If the code includes those calls, no action is required from your side. If it does not, linking to libpython is not required. > > I might mass file bugzillas at a later date, but I wanted to provide you the heads up before that. > > [0] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#initializing-and-finalizing-the-interpreter > > List of possibly affected packages, provided through $ repoquery --repo=rawhide --source --whatrequires 'libpython3.8.so.1.0()(64bit)' > > Maintainers by package: ...snip... >kevin calibre collectd fontforge thunarx-python calibre has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize. collectd has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize. fontforge has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize. thunarx-python has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize. I assume you all are keeping a whitelist or something for this? (so you don't file bugs on the ones already checked). Thanks for the notice! kevin
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