> On 15 May 2020, at 19:12, Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > <snip> > python-gstreamer1 farnz wtaymans python-gstreamer1 links to libpython for writing GStreamer plugins in Python, embedded in a C application. I'll need to dig deeper to confirm that only the code for writing plugins in Python is actually linked to libpython, not the code for using GStreamer from Python. > -- > Regards, > > Charalampos Stratakis > Software Engineer > Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
