On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 07:05:12PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > Am 05.02.21 um 01:51 schrieb Darrick J. Wong: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 01:31:23AM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> --D > > > --D > > > > > > > > Reported-by: Helmut Grohne <helmut@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Bastian Germann <bastiangermann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
