> On 15 May 2020, at 19:12, Charalampos Stratakis <cstra...@redhat.com> 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.
> 
<snip>
> python-gstreamer1    farnz wtaymans

python-gstreamer1 links to libpython for writing GStreamer plugins in Python, 
embedded in a C application.

I'll need to dig deeper to confirm that only the code for writing plugins in 
Python is actually linked to libpython, not the code for using GStreamer from 
Python.

> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Charalampos Stratakis
> Software Engineer
> Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat
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