[This bug is targeted to the upcoming forky release]

The package build-depends or depends on python3-pkg-resources, which
is deprecated upstream. Details can be found at

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html

Use of pkg_resources is deprecated in favor of importlib.resources
and importlib.metadata. Some useful APIs are also provided by
packaging (e.g. requirements and version parsing). Users should
refrain from new usage of pkg_resources and should work to port to
importlib-based solutions.

Python 3.13 in unstable provides both importlib.resources and
importlib.metadata, so no additional dependencies on those packages
are needed.

If the package is a namespace package, then please lower the severity
again to normal.

This is fixed in git. We can't forward the patch because upstream refrained from using importlib and instead chose to hardcode the version.

Kind Regards,

Bas

Hi,

Can you please upload the pending changes ?

Greetings

Alexandre

I'm waiting for the next upstream release, RC bug, or upcoming freeze.

Maybe Antonio wants to become an uploader of pycsw too.

Note that pycsw is in non-free, so you need to upload the amd64.changes instead of source.changes.

Kind Regards,

Bas

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pycsw, 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 1125837@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@debian.org> (supplier of updated pycsw package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:18:55 +0200
Source: pycsw
Binary: pycsw pycsw-doc pycsw-wsgi python3-pycsw
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.6.2+dfsg-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@debian.org>
Description:
 pycsw      - OGC compliant metadata (Catalogue Service for the Web) server
 pycsw-doc  - OGC compliant metadata (Catalogue Service for the Web) server - d
 pycsw-wsgi - WSGI Apache CSW service based on pycsw
 python3-pycsw - OGC compliant metadata (Catalogue Service for the Web) server - P
Closes: 1125837
Changes:
 pycsw (2.6.2+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Add python3-legacy-cgi to (build) dependencies.
   * Annotate build dependencies with nocheck & nodoc.
   * Drop Priority: optional, default since dpkg 1.22.13.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4, changes: priority.
   * Add patch to use importlib instead of deprecate pkg_resources.
     (closes: #1125837)
   * Use pybuild-plugin-pyproject instead of python3-setuptools.
   * Update lintian overrides.
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