[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/qemu: add host-python as an explicit dependency

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:22:00 +0200
Avraham Shukron <avraham.shukron@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your suggestion works. If python3 is selected - host-python3 is used.
> BUT - host-qemu also depends on host-libglib2 which depends on host-meson
> which depends on python3,

True. But then, how did you get build issues when building qemu ? I
mean, your v3 in fact doesn't do anything really: host-python3 was
already built as one of the dependencies of qemu, through libglib2. So
how did you get issues ?

> BTW - I'm pretty sure that there aren't really so many packages that truly
> depends on **host**-python2 (except maybe python2 itself)
> So in general I think it could be a good idea to just replace **all**
> host-python with host-python3 (again - except python2 itself) and
> just see what happens.

We discussed this at the latest Buildroot Developers meeting, you can
see some notes in "Python 2 deprecation" at
https://bimestriel.framapad.org/p/buildroot-elce-2019-meeting. We
welcome contributions in this area.

Thanks,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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