[pkg-uWSGI-devel] Bug#941432: Bug#941432: Bug#941432: Bug#941432: Bug#941432: Bug#941432: uwsgi-core: Dependency libmatheval is getting out of bullseye

[Alexandre Rossi]

Le 13 octobre 2019 01:04:46 GMT+02:00, "Pierre-Elliott Bécue" <peb at debian.org> a écrit :
>Le jeudi 03 octobre 2019 à 11:50:48+0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>> Quoting Alexandre Rossi (2019-10-02 15:04:54)
>> > > > > > Do you have plans/solutions regarding this issue? Is it
>possible 
>> > > > > > to drop uwsgi-core dependency on libmatheval1?
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > It should be as simple as not building the matheval plugin
>which is 
>> > > > > not critical to uwsgi. Should I go on with this?
>> > > > 
>> > > > Yeah, I just wasn't sure that it'd be an acceptable solution
>for you.
>> > > > 
>> > > > But it's perfectly fine with me. :)
>> > > 
>> > > Well, I would say "tolerable" rather than "acceptable" - it is a
>real 
>> > > annoyance since it will directly remove features now offered in
>uwsgi.
>> > 
>> > upstream says in 1.9.20 changelog:
>> > 
>> >     The matheval support has been removed, while a generic
>“matheval” plugin
>> >     (for internal routing) is available (but not compiled in by
>default).
>> >     See below for the new way for making “math” in config files.
>> > 
>> > > @Alexandre: Make sure to add a NEWS entry warning users of the
>removal 
>> > > of matheval - ideally enumerating explicitly all uwsgi options
>which has 
>> > > disappeared and may silently wreak havoc on local systems.
>> > > 
>> > > Also, better check e.g. with codesearch.debian.net if any
>packages rely 
>> > > on matheval-related uwsgi config options, and if so alert them
>with 
>> > > bugreports.
>> > 
>> > Search on "uwsgi matheval" or "uwsgi math" yields no result.
>> 
>> Ah well, seems you got better knowledge here than me, Alex :-)
>
>Thanks for taking the time to answer.
>
>Do you require some assistance regarding a new upload of uwsgi? I'm
>eager to dedicate some time to it if you can't do so. :)

I have a patch but I have not been able to test it yet because the py2 removal makes the package FTBS... I'm close to fix it though. I'll post an update here by wednesday.

Alex