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 Sorry missed this for a day or two or three ... 
  
 On 1 November 2025 at 16:07, Santiago Vila wrote: 
 | On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 09:36:23AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: 
 | 
 | > This is apparently caused by SWIG 4.4.0 which is newer than the one 
 used to 
 | > generated these bindings here, but upstream (CC'ed) kindly gave me a 
 | > (trivial) two-line (net) patch rolling the minimum version format which 
 I 
 | > folded the usual way via a file in debian/patches/ 
 | > 
 | > New version coming up shortly closing this too. 
 | 
 | I infer, then, that any package with a similar mode of failure is 
 | suitable to be fixed in the package itself. 
 | 
 | (I'm often in doubt if some bugs are bugs in the packages that need to 
 | be fixed, or a bug in one of the build-depends, and reassigns are 
 | required, so I rely on the good will of maintainers to tell me). 
  
 I would concur. [ But I am really not much of a Python programmer. ]  The 
 error your (autogenerated ?) bug report showed was suggestive of an API 
 evolution and the spot-on-yet-very-simple patch that Luigi helped us with 
 does nothing more than ... rolling the minimum Python forward to a version 
 already way too ancient for Debian testing/unstable.  So methinks you can 
 automate this with suitable Python defaults. 
  
 | Thanks a lot. 
  
 Anytime. 
  
 Cheers, Dirk 
  
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