> On 17 May 2020, at 14:48, Simon Farnsworth <si...@farnz.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

And checked - the code to use GStreamer from Python is not linked to libpython, 
only the code to use Python instead of C to write GStreamer plugins.

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