[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#997772: python-cogent: FTBFS: You must configure the bibtex_bibfiles setting

[Andreas Tille]

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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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