Dear Maintainer,

To make the build process more effecient, the "python3-flit" build
engine has been spun out of the "flit" toolbox:

Here is the new situation

flit (the toolbox) | +-- python3-docutils | +-- python3-flit (the
engine, only requires the standard library) | +-- python3-pip | +--
python3-requests: ca-certificates,: python3-certifi, python3-chardet,
| python3-charset-normalizer, python3-idna, python3-urllib3 | +--
python3-tomli-w

So all your package still compiles as of today.

Please adapt your debian/control file accordingly:
s/flit/python3-flit/

As the old "flit" package was pulling a whole more packages, your
build might start to miss one of those.

If you wish to keep your package backportable, please dependes on
"python3-flit | flit"

Greetings

Alexandre

Thank you

It should be ok in the next lintian release:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1148880

I will grab the .deb from Salsa CI to test it

Le sam. 26 sept. 2026 à 00:32, Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> a écrit :

This is fixed in git, but it looks like lintian still needs to be updated:

  I: python-affine source: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend flit_core.buildapi (does not satisfy flit:any, pybuild-plugin-pyproject:any) [pyproject.toml:3]

Kind Regards,

Bas

Yes, I found:

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/cfe4d941d33e0d7a76faca938523750984b5118f

We can drop the override when that's in unstable.
Kind Regards,

Bas

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
python-affine, 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 1149005@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it> (supplier of updated python-affine package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:22:07 +0000
Source: python-affine
Architecture: source
Version: 3.0.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it>
Closes: 1149005
Changes:
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   [ Bas Couwenberg ]
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