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libsemanage - DeprecationWarning: builtin type SwigPyPacked + SwigPyObject

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      There should be no deprecation warnings when importing the semanage python module.

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      There should be no deprecation warnings when importing the semanage python module.
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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      The warning was found thanks to inspiration from the anaconda team (RHEL-82838).

      Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

      libsemanage-3.9-1.el10.x86_64
      python3-libsemanage-3.9-1.el10.x86_64

      How reproducible is this bug?

      Always

      Steps to reproduce:

      Minimal reproducer for the swigvarlink DeprecationWarning

      #!/usr/bin/env python3
import warnings
warnings.simplefilter('always')
import semanage

      Actual results:

      # python3
Python 3.12.12 (main, Oct 10 2025, 00:00:00) [GCC 14.3.1 20250617 (Red Hat 14.3.1-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import warnings
>>> warnings.simplefilter('always')
>>> import semanage
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:488: DeprecationWarning: builtin type SwigPyPacked has no __module__ attribute
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:488: DeprecationWarning: builtin type SwigPyObject has no __module__ attribute
>>>

      Expected results:

      An empty output is expected

      Source of the issue

      The warning is caused by code generated with the affected SWIG:

      A rebuild against the fixed SWIG will resolve it.

              rh-ee-vsyncako Veronika Syncakova
              jplesnik@redhat.com Jitka Plesnikova
              Vit Mojzis Vit Mojzis
              Milos Malik Milos Malik
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