Source: mpi4py Version: 4.1.1-1 Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: cross-satisfiability
The python3-sphinx dependency poses an issue to cross building mpi4py as it cannot be satisfied. Fortunately, mpi4py already disables its documentation build during arch-only builds, so the use left is the sphinxdoc debhelper addon. Once turning it declarative (Build-Depends: dh-sequence-sphinxdoc), it can also be moved to Build-Depends-Indep and then python3-sphinx can also be moved there. Thus the unsatisfiable dependency has become irrelevant. I'm attaching a patch for your convenience. Using reproducible builds, I verified that it does not affect output artifacts. Helmut
diff -Nru mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/changelog mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/changelog --- mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/changelog 2025-10-24 13:06:07.000000000 +0200 +++ mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/changelog 2026-02-24 10:58:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +mpi4py (4.1.1-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Demote sphinx dependency to B-D-I. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:58:33 +0100 + mpi4py (4.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release diff -Nru mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/control mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/control --- mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/control 2025-10-24 13:06:07.000000000 +0200 +++ mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/control 2026-02-24 10:58:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -14,12 +14,13 @@ cython3, python3-all-dev, python3-numpy, - python3-sphinx, python3-setuptools Build-Depends-Indep: texinfo, texlive, + dh-sequence-sphinxdoc, latexmk, tex-gyre, texlive-latex-extra, python3-doc, + python3-sphinx, python-numpy-doc Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/mpi4py diff -Nru mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/rules mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/rules --- mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/rules 2025-10-24 13:06:07.000000000 +0200 +++ mpi4py-4.1.1/debian/rules 2026-02-24 10:57:02.000000000 +0100 @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ endif %: - dh $@ --with sphinxdoc --buildsystem pybuild + dh $@ --buildsystem pybuild cythonize: @echo "D: removing previously generated by Cython sources"
