[Python-modules-team] Bug#896288: python-sphinx-paramlinks: sphinx_paramlinks fails to import

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: python-sphinx-paramlinks
Version: 0.3.4-1
Severity: serious
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: python-import

After installing python-sphinx-paramlinks importing the module sphinx_paramlinks
into a python interpreter fails with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx_paramlinks/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .sphinx_paramlinks import setup  # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sphinx_paramlinks/sphinx_paramlinks.py", line 6, in <module>
    from sphinx.util.osutil import copyfile
ImportError: No module named sphinx.util.osutil

The vast majority of import failures is attributed to missing dependencies.
Often times that manifests as an ImportError or ModuleNotFoundError.
Typically, dependencies should be inserted by dh-python via ${python:Depends}
or ${python3:Depends}. Thus a missing dependency can be caused by incomplete
install_requires in setup.py. Sometimes a missing dependency of a dependency
is the cause, in such cases this bug should be reassigned.

Helmut