[Python-modules-team] Bug#997758: nose: FTBFS: There is a syntax error in your configuration file: invalid syntax (conf.py, line 220)

[Jakub Wilk]

Control: tags -1 + patch

* Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org>, 2021-10-24, 16:24:
>setuptools v58.0.0 removed support for 2to3 during builds,
>which nose relied on (because it has a Python 2 codebase).

You can convert the source to be compatible with Python 3 with these 
commands:

   patch -p1 unit_tests/test_issue_100.rst < unit_tests/test_issue_100.rst.py3.patch
   2to3 -wn .
   find -name '*.rst' | xargs 2to3 -dwn

Then you need a few small changes (see the attached patches) to stop 
the build system from trying to run 2to3 stuff again at build time.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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