From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
Cc: Anton Bengtsson <anton.bengtsson@plejd.com>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] support/scripts/cve: replace distutils with looseversion
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 15:57:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aYNeFdNqBzyXkzdb@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260106221506.40473-1-thomas.perale@mind.be>
Hello Thomas, Hello Anton,
On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:15:06PM +0100, Thomas Perale via buildroot wrote:
> On my system I'm running python 3.13 which deprecated `distutils`. I didn't ran
> into any error running the `cve.py` until now. The reason for this looks to be
> that the `distutils` library is provided by setuptools on my system.
On my system with Python 3.14, pkg-stats also works fine.
> Is there any reason to not use setuptools because I think there is an higher
> chance that a user have setuptools installed rather than `looseversion` (I
> didn't had it installed for instance).
I agree, but then, why did you provide your:
> Reviewed-By: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
?
Since your question is important, and as far as I can see, has not
received feedback from Anton.
For the time being, I've marked the series as Changes
Requested. Anton, let us know if you have some feedback.
Thanks a lot!
Thomas
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-11 12:12 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/scripts/cve: replace distutils with looseversion Anton Bengtsson via buildroot
2025-09-11 19:13 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2025-09-12 8:34 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] " Anton Bengtsson via buildroot
2025-09-12 8:34 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] support/docker/Dockerfile: add python3-looseversion Anton Bengtsson via buildroot
2026-01-06 22:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] support/scripts/cve: replace distutils with looseversion Thomas Perale via buildroot
2026-02-04 14:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2026-02-04 15:29 ` Vincent Fazio
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