Bug#1143297: debian-policy: FTBFS: Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 10:40:57AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>On 8/16/26 12:21 PM, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>Hilmar Preuße [10/Aug 12:47pm +02] wrote:
>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/bin/sphinx-intl", line 8, in <module>
>>>     sys.exit(main())
>>>              ~~~~^^
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1514, in __call__
>>>     return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
>>>            ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1435, in main
>>>     rv = self.invoke(ctx)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1902, in invoke
>>>     return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
>>>                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1298, in invoke
>>>     return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
>>>            ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 853, in invoke
>>>     return callback(*args, **kwargs)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx_intl/commands.py", line 315, in update
>>>     basic.update(
>>>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~^
>>>         locale_dir,
>>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>     ...<4 lines>...
>>>         jobs=jobs,
>>>         ^^^^^^^^^^
>>>     )
>>>     ^
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx_intl/basic.py", line 107, in update
>>>     po_dir = os.path.join(locale_dir, lang, "LC_MESSAGES")
>>>   File "<frozen posixpath>", line 77, in join
>>>TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType
>>
>>Thanks.  It looks like it might be a bug in sphinx-intl, then.  I don't
>>see any intentional incompatible changes in the upstream CHANGES.rst.
>>
>>Adding recent uploaders of sphinx-intl.
>>
>
>Reassigning over there for now. In case the issue is still in TL, call back.

debbisect says:

the following packages differ between the last good and first bad timestamp:
   distro-info-data 0.72-1 -> 0.73-1
   python3-click 8.2.0+0.really.8.1.8-2 -> 8.3.3-1
   texlive 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-base 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-fonts-recommended 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-latex-base 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-latex-recommended 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-luatex 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-pictures 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2
   texlive-xetex 2026.20260711-1 -> 2026.20260711-2

My money is on the python3-click change, although I suspect the bug 
should remain assigned to sphinx-intl since it probably needs to adapt 
to click API changes of some kind.  I haven't tracked it down further 
yet.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]