#1125506 setuptools: please do a no-change sourcefull rebuild of setuptools against new dh-python

#1125506#5
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2026-01-15 06:06:46 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Please evaluate if it's worth to do a no-change rebuild against the new dh-python.


I'm mostly interrested about this one commit,
but given the relevance of setuptools there might be other side effects:

https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/commit/14e4e6a8ae63c9918732599393f6f28d1130d3bd


  # Optimize away any dependencies on Python less than:
 -MIN_PY_VERSION = [3, 9]
 +MIN_PY_VERSION = [3, 11]



My end goal is to remove python-importlib-metadata from the key package set:

https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi

 - reason: python3-setuptools depends python3-importlib-metadata
   source: python-importlib-metadata


Greetings

Alexandre