Re: spread-sheet-widget is in debian unstable

[Ben Pfaff]

There was a build failure on arm64, in one of the tests. I tried to
reproduce it on a Debian arm64 machine, but the same test passed
there.  Very odd.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:00 AM Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> A while ago, when I wanted to write a new test that required some
> programming, I wrote it in Python because it's more commonly available,
> generally more user friendly, easier to read, etc.  I forgot to document
> the new dependency.  I've fixed that now.
>
> In the long run I hope to rewrite the existing build-time Perl code into
> Python, but it's not a priority.
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:08:10AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> > A dependency on python (of any version) is something completely new to
> > me.   Why are we dependent on that?  When did it happen?
> >
> > J'
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 01:11:15PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >      On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 01:53:08PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> >      > Hi Ben,
> >      >
> >      > the spread-sheet-widget is in debian unstable!
> >      >
> >      > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/spread-sheet-widget
> >
> >      I did a build with pbuilder, with the intention of uploading.  The 
> > build
> >      fails because python is not available.  It looks like python3 is 
> > getting
> >      installed but not python2, and that only python2 is available by the
> >      name "python".  I guess that PSPP should learn to work with python3, 
> > but
> >      for now it's probably easiest to add a build dependency on python2.
> >
> >      Thanks,
> >
> >      Ben.
> >
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