Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Diane Trout Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: What to do about packages that depend on distutils being not installable Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 21:00:02 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu May 31 18:50:26 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.363 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DIGITS_LETTERS=1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SARE_MSGID_LONG40=0.637] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.2-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16001 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/57b2b28ef0e3c663ca4e442b504a8c60db9cfb37.camel@ghic.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 15 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 11:50:06 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <57b2b28ef0e3c663ca4e442b504a8c60db9cfb37.camel@ghic.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10595 Hi, I was trying to rebuild dask, and discovered that several dependencies aren't installable because python3-distutils appears to have been merged into python3-stdlib-extensions. For example in an unstable chroot python3-sphinx : Depends: python3-lib2to3 but it is not installable Depends: python3-distutils but it is not installable Is this a problem with the python3-stdlib-extensions packaging or does anything that currently depends on python3-distutils need to be updated? Diane