Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > The macOS jobs in our CI recently started failing, complaining that > the distutils module is not available anymore. And indeed, according to > https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ it's been deprecated since a while > and now likely got removed in recent Python versions. > > Fortunately, we only use it for a version check via LooseVersion here > which we don't really need anymore - according to Repology.org, these > are the versions of sphinx-rtd-theme that are currently used by the > various distros: > > centos_stream_8: 0.3.1 > centos_stream_9: 0.5.1 > fedora_38: 1.1.1 > fedora_39: 1.2.2 > freebsd: 1.0.0 > haikuports_master: 1.2.1 > openbsd: 1.2.2 > opensuse_leap_15_5: 0.5.1 > pkgsrc_current: 2.0.0 > debian_11: 0.5.1 > debian_12: 1.2.0 > ubuntu_20_04: 0.4.3 > ubuntu_22_04: 1.0.0 > ubuntu_24_04: 2.0.0 > > So except for CentOS 8, all distros are using a newer version of > sphinx-rtd-theme, and for CentOS 8 we don't support compiling with > the Sphinx of the distro anymore anyway, since it's based on the > Python 3.6 interpreter there. For compiling on CentOS 8, you have > to use the alternative Python 3.8 interpreter which comes without > Sphinx, so that needs the Sphinx installed via pip in the venv > instead, and that is using a newer version, too, according to our > pythondeps.toml file. > > Thus we can simply drop the version check now to get rid of the > distutils dependency here. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
Queued to testing/next, thanks. -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
