We would like to remove libtool-bin from Debian. One of the reasons is
that using the package universally breaks cross compilation. For
pystring, there are two options:

It can switch to libtoolize and generate a libtool during build. This
typically amounts to turning it into a full fledged autotools project.
To me, this seems overkill.

The other option is to do by hand what libtool does now. I'm attaching
a patch for this approach.

The point of this exercise is to get libtool-bin out of Build-Depends.
Choose whatever method suits you best.

Helmut

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pystring, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1122142@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org> (supplier of updated pystring package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:06:39 +0200
Source: pystring
Architecture: source
Version: 1.1.5-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org>
Closes: 1047582 1122142 1146147
Changes:
 pystring (1.1.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload
   * Use the meson build system instead of the handwritten makefile
     (Closes: #1122142, #1146147, #1047582)
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