#943936 supervisor: Build-depends on python3-all but should only need python3

Package:
supervisor
Source:
supervisor
Submitter:
Steve Langasek
Date:
2019-11-05 22:09:03 UTC
Severity:
minor
#943936#5
Date:
2019-11-01 05:42:13 UTC
From:
To:
Package: supervisor
Version: 4.1.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal ubuntu-patch

Dear maintainers,

The supervisor package currently build-depends on python3-all, which causes
its test suite to be run at build time against all supported versions of
python3.

This is unnecessary, since supervisor is an application package and will
only ever be used at runtime against the current version of python3.

The only reason I noticed this is because python3.8 has been added as a
supported, non-default version of python3 in Ubuntu, and supervisor 4.0.4
was not compatible with python3.8.

I'd suggest the attach patch, to avoid the build failing in the future on
build-time tests that are not relevant to the functioning of the binary
package.

Cheers,
#943936#10
Date:
2019-11-01 06:28:28 UTC
From:
To:
FWIW, I disagree on this patch.  I think this is exactly what one would want.
The test failure provides awareness of an incompatibility.  The sooner the
better.  I don't think there's benefit to waiting until the default is changed
to discover this.

Scott K
#943936#15
Date:
2019-11-05 21:53:48 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Steve,
build-time

I see that you decided to upload 4.1.0u1 to Ubuntu before syncing 4.1.0-1
from
Debian, if you look at the upstream changelog, you will notice that 4.1.0
solved
some python 3.8 issue, did you check if this solved the compatibility issue
you
detected before doing the u1 upload?

I would recommend checking if that's not the case, and if not, I would be
happy
to forward the issue (or maybe even patch it) upstream, so I appreciate if
you
could help me understand how the issue was detected and how I can navigate
through Ubuntu's QA myself, I would gladly help reducing the delta between
the
distros.

Regards,
#943936#20
Date:
2019-11-05 22:06:08 UTC
From:
To:
Yes, 4.1.0 does build with python3.8, which I discovered in the process of
trying to prepare a fixed build for 4.0.4 (the current package at the time I
started).  I went ahead anyway with submitting this bug because I think it's
still per se correct to only build-depend on python3 here instead of
python3-all, regardless of whether the new upstream version happens to be
compatible with python3.8.

Cheers,