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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0011577 | Taler | documentation | public | 2026-06-30 09:02 | 2026-06-30 09:42 |
| Reporter | apteryx | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | GNU/Linux | OS | Guix System | OS Version | latest |
| Summary | 0011577: taler-docs bundles an old httpdomain sphinx extension which does not work with Python 3.12 | ||||
| Description | Hi, Attempting to build taler-docs from source, I stumble on the following error: ``` sphinx-build -b texinfo -d _build/doctrees . _build/texinfo Running Sphinx v9.0.3 loading translations [en]... done Extension error! Versions ======== * Platform: linux; (Linux-6.18.33-x86_64-with-glibc2.41) * Python version: 3.12.12 (CPython) * Sphinx version: 9.0.3 * Docutils version: 0.21.2 * Jinja2 version: 3.1.2 * Pygments version: 2.19.2 Last Messages ============= None. Loaded Extensions ================= None. Traceback ========= File "/gnu/store/4s6s5k2sysvy1q7q5dijhy5x43h4kxx9-python-sphinx-9.0.3/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sphinx/registry.py", line 546, in load_extension raise ExtensionError( sphinx.errors.ExtensionError: Could not import extension httpdomain.httpdomain (exception: No module named 'pkg_resources') The full traceback has been saved in: /tmp/guix-build-taler-docs-0.0.0-0.3626faf.drv-0/sphinx-err-fgwfdi8j.log To report this error to the developers, please open an issue at <https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/>. Thanks! Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error message can be provided next time. make: *** [Makefile:158: info] Error 2 ``` If I understand, this is because the bundled httpdomain sphinx extension under _exts/httpdomain is too old and relies on older deprecated API that no longer exist in Python 3.12. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Building using Guix with the following inputs: python-minimal@3.12.12 python-myst-parser@5.0.0 python-sphinx-design@0.6.1 python-sphinx-multitoc-numbering@0.1.3 python-sphinx@9.0.3 python-sphinxcontrib-httpdomain@2.0.0 texinfo@6.8 | ||||
| Additional Information | I can remove the bundled library of httpdomain (and also multitoc-numbering since I packaged it in Guix) and adjust the conf.py to use the new package name `sphinxcontrib.httpdomain` instead of `httpdomain.httpdomain`, and then it proceeds further. | ||||
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OK, I realized there are now improvements made in the taler-docs fork of httpdomain not yet upstreamed; I'm trying to rectify that in https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/httpdomain/pull/110 |