as expected, the last buid failed when buildozer called package_app.p…

…y and it tried to have pip install python3.

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  2020-06-22T09:25:00.4309230Z Collecting python3
  2020-06-22T09:25:00.5120970Z   ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement python3 (from versions: none)
  2020-06-22T09:25:00.5146430Z ERROR: No matching distribution found for python3
  2020-06-22T09:25:00.6540200Z WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 20.1.1 is available.
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  2020-06-22T09:25:00.7058160Z [0m[1;31m# Command failed: pip install --target=/Users/runner/runners/2.263.0/work/cross-platform-python-gui/cross-platform-python-gui/buildozer/.buildozer/applibs python3[0m
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I'm removing 'python3' from the buildozer.spec requrements option and attempting to force package_app.py to skip the thinning step.

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build/mac/buildDmg.sh

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ set -x
 # * https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/issues/494#issuecomment-390262889
 #
 # Authors: Michael Altfield <[email protected]>
-# Created: 2020-06-21
-# Updated: 2020-06-21
+# Created: 2020-06-22
+# Updated: 2020-06-22
 # Version: 0.1
 ################################################################################
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ package.domain = org.test
 source.dir = ../src/
 source.include_exts = py,png,jpg,kv,atlas
 version = 0.1
-requirements = python3,kivy
+requirements = kivy
 orientation = portrait
 osx.python_version = 3
 osx.kivy_version = 1.9.1
@@ -219,10 +219,14 @@ popd
 
 # Go into kivy sdk directory and fix the script package_app.py to use the specified python version.
 cp package_app.py package_app.py.orig
-echo "===package_app.py======================================================="
-cat package_app.py
-echo "===package_app.py======================================================="
+echo "===package_app.py.orig======================================================="
+cat package_app.py.orig
+echo "===package_app.py.orig======================================================="
 sed -i '' "s;3.5.0;$PYTHON_VERSION;g" package_app.py
+
+# prevent auto-thinning
+sed -i '' "s;if not strip:;if True:;g" package_app.py
+
 ## Make it python3 compatible by removing decode(...) calls.
 #sed -i '' "s;\.decode('utf-8');;g" package_app.py
 diff package_app.py.orig package_app.py