Re: [PATCH v2] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Thomas Huth]

On 04/03/2024 19.04, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 06:11:58PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 04/03/2024 17.56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 13:04, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > This doesn't seem to be sufficient to fix the macos CI:
> > > something in glib seems to still be using it.
> > >
> > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/6313212803
> > >
> > > [281/6553] Generating ui/dbus-display gdbus-codegen with a custom command
> > > FAILED: ui/dbus-display1.h ui/dbus-display1.c
> > > /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/bin/gdbus-codegen
> > > ui/dbus-display1.xml --glib-min-required 2.64 --output-directory
> > > /private/var/folders/xc/tpssff9959345bnqq4c6tlww0000gn/T/cirrus-ci-build/build/ui
> > > --interface-prefix org.qemu. --c-namespace QemuDBus --generate-c-code
> > > dbus-display1
> > ...
> > > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
> >
> > Looking at the glib sources, I think this has been fixed here:
> >
> >   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/6ef967a0f930ce37a8c9b5aff96969
> >
> > The fix will be in glib 2.79, unfortunately homebrew still seems to use glib
> > 2.78 ...
> >
> > We could maybe temporarily work-around the problem by disabling the dbus
> > code in the CI job? Or just wait for homebrew to update the package?
>
> File a bug against homebrew. IME they are very quick (1-3 days) at
> putting out fixes for things like this, especially if you point them
> to the upstream solution.

Ok, while I was writing my mail, I was looking at https://brew.sh/ and 
didn't see a link to a bug tracker there ... but now I realized that they 
are simply using the github tracker, so I went ahead and filed a bug there:

 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/16823

Let's see how it goes...

 Thomas