Re: Python2-jsonschema fails

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:53:05PM +0100, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
> > Yes, a bunch of packages will have to be rebuilt, but there is nothing
> > we can do about this, I'm afraid.
> 
> I think what Efraim meant was that package-with-python2 does not work when
> dealing with packages depending on python2-jsonschema. They will then not
> depend on python2-jsonschema (built with python2-functools32), but on the
> recursively rewritten (package-with-python2 python-jsonschema), which does
> not include python2-functools32 in its inputs. We already have this rather
> unpleasant problem around the numpy/matplotlib universe.

Shall we open a bug for this? It was discussed in #22013 [0] but that
specific issue was solved and the bug was closed in expectation of a
more general bug report.

> 
> A cheating workaround would be to also add python-functools32 to the inputs
> of python-jsonschema, assuming that it would be superfluous, but not
> impossible, that is, not creating a conflict.

This "solution" is already in place throughout python.scm. I don't think
that python-setuptools is really required for many of the python-3
packages that call it as a native-input, but it eases the python-2
translation.

[0]
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22013

> 
> Andreas
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