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Python packaging

I upgraded these packages to new upstream versions:

• aiosmtplib
• astroid (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14, as I wrote about recently in Preparing a transition in Debusine)
• billiard (fixing a syntax warning with Python 3.14)
• celery (contributed follow-up fix upstream)
• cloudpickle (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
• csvkit
• deepdiff (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
• django-auditlog
• django-phonenumber-field
• flake8-builtins
• flufl.lock
• kombu
• peewee
• psycopg2
• pydantic-extra-types
• pygments (prepared transition in Debusine with diff-cover, pydata-sphinx-theme, pymdown-extensions, python-readme-renderer, and python-stack-data; contributed python-stack-data fix upstream)
• pylint (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
• pymdown-extensions
• python-aiojobs (fixing a build failure)
• python-aiostream
• python-asttokens (fixing a build failure with astroid 4)
• python-auditwheel
• python-blockbuster
• python-boolean.py
• python-confluent-kafka
• python-django-crispy-forms
• python-django-pgbulk
• python-django-pgtransaction
• python-django-pgtrigger (fixing a build failure with mkdocstrings-python-handlers >= 2)
• python-evalidate
• python-exchangelib (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
• python-holidays
• python-lsp-server
• python-lz4
• python-mashumaro (fixing many build failures in other packages with Python 3.14)
• python-moto
• python-persistent
• python-pytest-run-parallel
• python-roman
• python-rx (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
• python-telethon
• python-uvicorn (fixing a test failure with current uvloop)
• python-wheezy.template
• python-wslink
• rpds-py
• sphinx-autoapi
• sqlparse
• zope.testing (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)

Python 3.14 is now a supported version in unstable, and we’re working to get that into testing. As usual this is a pretty arduous effort because it requires going round and fixing lots of odds and ends across the whole ecosystem. We can deal with a fair number of problems by keeping up with upstream (see above), but there tends to be a long tail of packages whose upstreams are less active and where we need to chase them, or where problems only show up in Debian for one reason or another. I spent a lot of time working on this:

• actdiag’s autopkgtests failed when there are multiple supported Python versions
• khard: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild —test -i python{version} -p “3.14 3.13” returned exit code 13 (contributed upstream)
• pydantic-settings: FTBFS: example.py: error: unrecognized arguments: —bad-arg (forwarded upstream and cherry-picked their fix)
• pydantic: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild —test —test-pytest -i python{version} -p “3.14 3.13” returned exit code 13
• pygame: FTBFS with Python 3.14: sys.getrefcount() AssertionError
• python-auditwheel: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild —test —test-pytest -i python{version} -p “3.14 3.13” returned exit code 13 (contributed upstream)
• python-charset-normalizer could silently build without support for some supported Python versions
• python-confluent-kafka: FTBFS with Python 3.14: Segmentation fault in test_create_topics_api (forwarded upstream and fixed after a debugging hint from them)
• python-django: FTBFS with Python 3.14 (also fixing many build failures in other packages)
• python-memray: FTBFS with Python 3.14: Segmentation fault (some initial debugging; upstream has since got a lot further)
• python-telethon: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild —test —test-pytest -i python{version} -p “3.14 3.13” returned exit code 13 (contributed upstream)
• python-typing-extensions: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild —test -i python{version} -p “3.14 3.13” returned exit code 13
• python-wheezy.template: FTBFS with Python 3.14 (contributed upstream, although they opted for doing it a bit differently)
• storm (made an upstream release with Python 3.14 support)
• twisted: Autopkgtests fail with Python 3.14: builtins.RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread ‘MainThread’ (forwarded upstream and cherry-picked their fix)
• zope.proxy and zope.security had a bootstrapping loop when adding new supported Python versions; I broke this loop so it shouldn’t bother us again in the future.

Fixes for pytest 9:

• celery (contributed upstream)
• pytest-pylint (contributed upstream)
• python-expandvars (contributed upstream)
• python-inline-snapshot

I filed lintian: Report Python egg-info files/directories to help us track the migration to pybuild-plugin-pyproject.

I did some work on dh-python: Normalize names in pydist lookups and pyproject plugin: Support headers (the latter of which allowed converting python-persistent and zope.proxy to pybuild-plugin-pyproject, although it needed a follow-up fix).

I fixed or helped to fix several other build/test failures:

• dpath-python
• flask-bcrypt: FTBFS: E ValueError: password cannot be longer than 72 bytes, truncate manually if necessary (e.g. my_password[:72])
• python-aiosmtpd
• python-aiostream
• python-auditwheel on i386 (contributed upstream)
• python-auditwheel on riscv64 (contributed upstream)
• python-bcrypt: Accept pyo3 0.27
• python-django-crum
• python-django-guid
• python-inline-snapshot
• python-laspy
• python-mnemonic
• python-ncls on 32-bit architectures (contributed upstream)
• python-papermill
• python-phonenumbers
• python-pluggy
• python-pycddl: Accept pyo3 0.27
• python-sphinx-autodoc2 (contributed upstream)
• python-structlog
• python-wikkid: FTBFS: AttributeError: ‘TestBaseParent’ object has no attribute ‘assertEquals’ (contributed follow-up fix upstream)
• python-wslink

Other bugs:

• python-bcrypt: ValueError: password cannot be longer than 72 bytes, truncate manually if necessary
• python-notify2: Directly Build-Depends on dbus
• python-packaging: Mark python3-packaging Multi-Arch: foreign
• python-pyproject-parser: python3-pyproject-parser needs a dependency on python3-consolekit
• sphinx: Please backport upstream’s fix on roman-numerals

Other bits and pieces

• db1-compat: Please remove/replace usage of dh_movetousr
• debmirror: Refresh mirror_size documentation
• groff: FTBFS randomly
• openssh: Misleading verbose output for local-to-local or standard remote-to-remote copies (upstreamed an improved version of a patch we’ve been carrying since 2008)
• pcmciautils: Please remove/replace usage of dh_movetousr

Code reviews

• openssh: Fix binary name in ssh-askpass-gnome.desktop (still in discussion)
• python-lsp-server: Increase tests timeout further
• rope: New upstream version 1.14.0 (merged and uploaded)
• trn4: Update/add Catalan po-debconf translation (merged)