Bug#997772: python-cogent: FTBFS: You must configure the bibtex_bibfiles setting

[Andreas Tille]

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Control: tags -1 upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/cogent3/cogent3/issues/977

Hi,

I wonder whether someone on the Python list might come up with some help

Am Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 01:57:39PM +0200 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> Source: python-cogent
> Version: 2021.5.7a+dfsg-2
> ...
> > make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
> > sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees . _build/html
> > Running Sphinx v4.2.0
> > making output directory... done
> > WARNING: html_static_path entry '_static' does not exist
> > WARNING: The config value `today' has type `date', defaults to `str'.
> >
> > Extension error:
> > You must configure the bibtex_bibfiles setting
> > make[2]: *** [Makefile:40: html] Error 2

I suspect that this issue is caused by the Sphinx version bump.
When looking at other places where this error was discussed[1],
the recommendation is to use

sphinxcontrib-bibtex<2.0.0 to requirements.txt

which is no real option in the our packaging case. Any help how
to adapt the code to python3-sphinxcontrib.bibtex 2.4.1 would
be appreciated.

Kind regards

Andreas.


[1] https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/issues/1137

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[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Andreas

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 19:00:05 AEDT Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 182, in
> write_pkg_file license = rfc822_escape(self.get_license())
> File "/usr/lib/python3.9/distutils/util.py", line 476, in rfc822_escape
> lines = header.split('\n')
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'

looking at setup.py, it has

license=["BSD"],

https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/python-cogent/-/blob/master/setup.py#L62

while the documentation for the setup() function indicates that licence should
be a string. That would certainly be consistent with the exception that is
raised with the output of get_license().

https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/
#license

I've not checked that this is indeed the problem, but patching setup.py to
have instead

license="BSD",

would be the next thing I'd try.

Incidentally, I see that upstream for cogent has ripped out setup.py entirely
and now has a flit based build system which will require a few changes to the
packaging in the future.

cheers
Stuart


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