Bug 2154832 - fonts-tweak-tool fails to build with Python 3.12: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
Summary: fonts-tweak-tool fails to build with Python 3.12: ModuleNotFoundError: No mo...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fonts-tweak-tool
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Akira TAGOH
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: PYTHON3.12
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-12-19 11:14 UTC by Tomáš Hrnčiar
Modified: 2023-01-05 13:30 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-01-05 13:30:15 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Tomáš Hrnčiar 2022-12-19 11:14:07 UTC
fonts-tweak-tool fails to build with Python 3.12.0a3.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 94, in <module>
    from giscanner.utils import dll_dirs
  File "/usr/lib64/gobject-introspection/giscanner/utils.py", line 355, in <module>
    import distutils.cygwinccompiler
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

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://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_64/05127998-fonts-tweak-tool/

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

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 Akira TAGOH 2023-01-05 12:15:42 UTC
I see another code depending on distutils in fonts-tweak-tool though, that traceback was coming from outside of fonts-tweak-tool actually and that should be reported to gobject-introspection.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.