Bug 2135758

Summary:	gpgme fails to build without distutils
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miro Hrončok <mhroncok>
Component:	gpgme	Assignee:	Jiri Kucera <jkucera>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	frantisek, igor.raits, jkucera
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Description Miro Hrončok 2022-10-18 11:25:13 UTC

Description of problem:
The Python standard library distutils module will be removed from Python 3.12+

https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/

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/

gpgme fails to build:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils/package/gpgme/

...
checking for python3.1... (cached) /usr/bin/python3.11
checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... yes
checking for the distutils Python package... no
configure: error: cannot import Python module "distutils".
Please check your Python installation. The error was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CV2Ket (%build)
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CV2Ket (%build)


Version-Release number of selected component: 1.17.0-4


How reproducible: Build gpgme without distutils


Steps to Reproduce:
1. fedpkg clone gpgme && cd gpgme
2. mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 init
3. mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 install python3-devel
4. sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mock/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/root/usr/lib64/python3.11/distutils/
4. fedpkg mockbuild -N


Actual results: fails to build
Expected results: builds fine

The python3-setutpools package provides a distutils module, so sometimes "simply" adding BuildRequires: python3-setuptools might workaround the problem. Unfortunately,  is not 100 % compatible with the removed standard library one distutils: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3532

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2022-12-01 01:02:21 UTC

FEDORA-2022-4c1b011b1b has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-4c1b011b1b

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2022-12-01 01:08:09 UTC

FEDORA-2022-4c1b011b1b has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.