Bug 2155449

Summary:	ntpsec fails to build with Python 3.12: missing distutils module
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomáš Hrnčiar <thrnciar>
Component:	ntpsec	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	igor.raits, jamesb.fe80, mhroncok, mlichvar, thrnciar
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Description Tomáš Hrnčiar 2022-12-21 09:40:25 UTC

ntpsec fails to build with Python 3.12.0a3.

The distutils module is unusable: install "python-devel"?

Remove the distutils package. It was deprecated in Python 3.10 by PEP 632 “Deprecate distutils module”. For projects still using distutils and cannot be updated to something else, the setuptools project can be installed: it still provides distutils. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in gh-92584.)

If your package is listed in [0], you may workaround this issue by BuildRequiring python-setuptools, note that adding such BuildRequires might however hide some transitive dependency problem, if the distutils import comes from a dependency.
Cooperation with upstream is recommended. Additional context [1].

[0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6BHNAWHE7M5VY3YQVJLOYHLY4M7KIFFN/

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/N6ITYHLRWIDNYNXGPYG2ZHF3ZLQWZN7L/

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/92584
https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html

For the build logs, see:
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@python/python3.12/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/05128115-ntpsec/

For all our attempts to build ntpsec with Python 3.12, see:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.12/package/ntpsec/

Testing and mass rebuild of packages is happening in copr. You can follow these instructions to test locally in mock if your package builds with Python 3.12:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.12/

Let us know here if you have any questions.

Python 3.12 is planned to be included in Fedora 39. To make that update smoother, we're building Fedora packages with all pre-releases of Python 3.12.
A build failure prevents us from testing all dependent packages (transitive [Build]Requires), so if this package is required a lot, it's important for us to get it fixed soon.
We'd appreciate help from the people who know this package best, but if you don't want to work on this now, let us know so we can try to work around it on our side.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2023-01-04 15:17:35 UTC

Upstream issue: https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/issues/753

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2023-02-07 15:03:48 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 38 development cycle.
Changing version to 38.

Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-07 15:54:17 UTC

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Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2024-05-09 07:35:46 UTC

ntpsec still relies on distutils.

Comment 5 James Browning 2024-05-13 20:57:10 UTC

One component of waf (the build tool) can use distutils, and the not-relevant-here tool python_paths requires it. Only one of the nine builds since 1.2.2 came out has failed, and as far as I haven't checked, it might well have been cosmic rays or Thorium poisoning.

Comment 6 Miroslav Lichvar 2024-05-14 08:08:50 UTC

Ok, thanks. I've verified the ntpsec package builds without distutils. distutils is still available in Fedora in the python3-setuptools package, so I assumed that's why ntpsec worked, but it seems that it doesn't really need that.