On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As of Python 3.8, python C extensions modules should not link to libpython, 
> unless they embed the interpreter in their code. Relevant upstream PR: 
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12946
> If your package links to libpython without requiring it, it won't be possible 
> to use the python3-debug binary with your python C extension, unless you 
> recompile the extension against it.
> 
> On Fedora Rawhide, there are at this point 144 packages linking to libpython, 
> many of those possibly without any need for it.
> 
> If your package links to libpython but it does not embed the interpreter, I 
> would like to ask you to unlink it. Usually the fix needs to be done at the 
> package's build system.
> 
> If you are not sure if your package links to libpython, a way to figure this 
> out  is to inspect the code for the Py_Initialize and the Py_Finalize calls 
> [0]. If the code includes those calls, no action is required from your side. 
> If it does not, linking to libpython is not required.
> 
> I might mass file bugzillas at a later date, but I wanted to provide you the 
> heads up before that.
> 
> [0] 
> https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init.html#initializing-and-finalizing-the-interpreter
> 
> List of possibly affected packages, provided through $ repoquery 
> --repo=rawhide --source --whatrequires 'libpython3.8.so.1.0()(64bit)'
> 
> Maintainers by package:
...snip...

>kevin      calibre collectd fontforge thunarx-python

calibre has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize.

collectd has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize.

fontforge has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize.

thunarx-python has Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize.

I assume you all are keeping a whitelist or something for this? 
(so you don't file bugs on the ones already checked). 

Thanks for the notice!

kevin

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