Bug#1058127: python-mpiplus: FTBFS: AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Yogeswaran,

On 2024-01-16 03:43, Yogeswaran Umasankar wrote:
> I have removed the hard-coded version number from setup.py. I found that
> the issue was due to changes in PEP440 version naming convention in
> versioneer. For this package no need python3-versioneer, upstream has
> its own versioneer.py. The work around is, once have everything in
> master branch create a tag with just the version number (0.0.2-1)
> instead of debian/version number (debian/0.0.2-1).

This would not work, either. Debian build machines build packages not 
from git repositories, but from source packages. Therefore they will not 
see git tags. Moreover, one should not deviate from Debian packaging 
principles to make a package build, thus Debian git tag names should not 
be tampered with.

> I have forked python-mpiplus [0] for you to check the changes and to see
> how it works before you decide to incorporate the changes. Feel free to
> MR the fork and make any further changes needed.
> 
> [0] https://salsa.debian.org/yogu/python-mpiplus

Thanks for looking into python-mpiplus, but I have chosen a different 
approach to deal with this issue. I removed embedded versioneer.py in 
favor of python3-versioneer thus resolving the build issue. This is not 
optimal either, as versioneer-derived package version stays '0+unknown', 
but this does not seem to be uncommon in Debian [1].

[1] $ apt-file search 0+unknown.egg-info

Thank you for caring for python-mpiplus.

Andrius