Dear Maintainer,

Thank you for the new release.

python3-mock is on it's way out.

I sent a lenghty PR upstream to clean the spurious usage comming back:

https://github.com/log2timeline/plaso/pull/5036


Please apply this minimal one-line patch on Debian
and drop the dependency from debian/control:
--- a/tests/cli/status_view.py
+++ b/tests/cli/status_view.py
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@

 import sys
 import unittest
-
-import mock
+from unittest import mock

 from dfvfs.lib import definitions as dfvfs_definitions




Greetings

Alexandre

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
plaso, 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 1130928@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated plaso package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:07:04 +0200
Source: plaso
Architecture: source
Version: 20260119-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools <team+pkg-security@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Closes: 1130928 1146008
Changes:
 plaso (20260119-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Drop python3-mock build-dependency (Closes: #1130928)
   * Skip failing multi_process / testProcessSource (Closes: #1146008)
   * Remove redundant Priority: optional from source stanza.
   * Update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed.
   * Set upstream metadata fields: Contact, Documentation.
   * Rewrite d/watch in v5 format
   * Disable useless Salsa CI jobs
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