Re: Python

[Andreas Enge]

Am Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 05:56:59PM +0100 schrieb Lars-Dominik Braun:
> Well, there are reasons no-one is updating the Python ecosystem
> regularly…

;-)

> I don’t know for sure why any of these packages’ tests fail. typeguard
> looks like it expects specific strings from Python or one of its libraries
> – safe to ignore.

So you suggest to add a #:test? #f?

> sgmllib3k looks pretty dead upstream. Perhaps it’s
> not even needed any more? Updates to Python packages (via `guix refresh`)
> do not update dependencies and thus the list of inputs/native-inputs
> are most likely outdated.

Indeed, dead upstream. It has two dependents:
quodlibet in the music module. There it is given as an input, but I do not
see it in the pyproject.toml file, so it may indeed not be needed.

It is also a propagated input of python-feedparser, which is an input to
quodlibet and a (small) number of other packages:
Building the following 6 packages would ensure 8 dependent packages are 
rebuilt: emacs-calibredb@2.12.0 limnoria@2019.11.22 rss2email@3.14 
quodlibet@4.5.0 python-woob@3.0 gfeeds@1.0.3
We are at version 6.0.8 (from June 2021), but I also tried the latest
release 6.0.10 (from May 2022). Even in its git repository, the
pyproject.toml has this:
[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = ">=3.7"
sgmllib3k = "^1.0.0"

And indeed, it does not build without.

One option would be to disable the tests of sgmllib3k; then it would be
nice if we could build any of the binaries depending on it to have a real
test case. But they all seem to have lots of other dependencies (for
instance python-cheetah for quodlibet, which also fails).

Andreas