On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:27:47AM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hey Pythonistas.
> 
> The Python standard library distutils module will be removed from Python 3.12+
> 
> https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/

Annoying, but OK ...

> As preparatory work, we build all python packages in a Copr repository
> with Python 3.11 sans distutils:
> 
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils/
> 
> I've rebuilt all the failed builds again and also in a control-group copr:
> 
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-with-distutils/
>
> 250 packages that failed to build without distuils but succeeded
> with distutils need to be examined and categorized into various
> different groups:
> 
>  - package uses distutils only if sys.version_info < (3, 12)
>      -- this is OK but still fails here
>  - package uses distutils unconditionally and the package needs to be fixed
>  - package uses another package that uses distutils unconditionally
>       and the dependency needs to be fixed
> 
> I suspect most of the packages will fail to build with Python 3.12
> (planned for Fedora 39, change proposal TBD). The python3-setutpools
> package provides a distutils module [^1], so sometimes "simply"
> adding BuildRequires: python3-setuptools might workaround the
> problem.

...

> rjones     hivex libdnet libnbd

I think your testing methodology might have been wrong because we use
distutils in other packages that I maintain, notably:

  https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/m4/guestfs-python.m4

I'm not sure what could have happened here.  The RPM would have failed
to build if the Python bindings had been ./configure-d out.  The link
shows libguestfs as "not build yet / Disabled":

  
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils/packages/?page=13

but then there's a build which succeeded:

  
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils/build/4906970/

and it has Python bindings.  (The logs of the build don't seem to be
available.)

Anyway I'll see if I can fix this upstream as requested.

Rich.

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