python-ncclient fails to build with Python 3.12.0a5.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/pyproject_buildrequires.py", line 532, in main
    generate_requires(
  File "/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/pyproject_buildrequires.py", line 439, in generate_requires
    generate_build_requirements(backend, requirements)
  File "/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/pyproject_buildrequires.py", line 289, in generate_build_requirements
    new_reqs = get_requires()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 338, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in _get_build_requires
    self.run_setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 484, in run_setup
    self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 335, in run_setup
    exec(code, locals())
  File "<string>", line 45, in <module>
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/ncclient-0.6.13/versioneer.py", line 1480, in get_version
    return get_versions()["version"]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/ncclient-0.6.13/versioneer.py", line 1412, in get_versions
    cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/ncclient-0.6.13/versioneer.py", line 342, in get_config_from_root
    parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?

Several names deprecated in the configparser way back in 3.2 have been removed
per gh-89336:

    - configparser.ParsingError no longer has a filename attribute or argument.
Use the source attribute and argument instead.

    - configparser no longer has a SafeConfigParser class. Use the shorter
ConfigParser name instead.

    - configparser.ConfigParser no longer has a readfp method. Use read_file()
instead.


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_64/05576505-python-ncclient/

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

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.