Subject: Re: [bug#40543] [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add python2-pyatspi.

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:41:43 +0200

Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> writes:

> This will enable updating python2-dogtail to 0.9.11.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (python2-pyatspi): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> index 088de7dd4c..b28fe6594b 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> @@ -8773,6 +8773,14 @@ accessibility infrastructure.")
>      (license license:lgpl2.0)
>      (properties '((upstream-name . "pyatspi")))))
>  
> +(define-public python2-pyatspi
> +  (package
> +    (inherit python-pyatspi)
> +    (name "python2-pyatspi")
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("python" ,python-2)
> +       ("python-pygobject" ,python2-pygobject)))))

Should the latter not be propagated?  I think the #:python argument of
python-build-system will still refer to python3 in this case.

It's better to use (package-with-python2 ...), see e.g. commit
1ffd618eba4836da5e5eaf6edd394ee949512bd8 for an example.