[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#1022985: Bug#1022985: libimobiledevice FTCBFS: python build dependencies not installable

[Helmut Grohne]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Hi Helmut, thanks for the bug and the patch. Besides the add of :native (and
> :any) in various places, which make sense, I can see the drop of dh-python. I
> assume it's linked to this but could you explain a bit what is the reason?

I think this is a matter of taste and I tend to remove it due to DRY. In
earlier times, you had to declare a debhelper addons in two places
(Build-Depends and dh --with). Now you can enable it using Build-Depends
alone. dh-python Provides dh-sequence-python3. Changing the dependency
like that implicitly turns on --with python3. It doesn't hurt to keep
dh-python in Build-Depends though. It just felt unnecessarily repetitive
to me. Keep it or drop it. Both works for cross building.

Helmut