On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:06:29PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 11/25/20 4:54 PM, Florian Schlichting wrote: > > I considered simply dropping the xxdiff-scripts package, but as the > > Python2 interpreter seems to stay around for the bullseye release, I > > think it is in the interest of our users to keep xxdiff-scripts until > > upstream gets around to make the conversion to Python3 or Python2 goes > > away for good. To that effect, I'm lowering the severity of this bug. > > I've uploaded a modified xxdiff that does not depend on the python > > package or the existence of /usr/bin/python. > > the security only wants to have python2 build dependencies, not any runtime > dependency.
I see - that might be useful to have documented somewhere, say on https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal? Anyway, I'll drop xxdiff-scripts then until they've been converted. Florian
