sci-mathematics/plink fails to upgrade to python3_11 because sphinx hasn't been upgraded yet! no problem rebuilding plink with the installed python3_10 but unless I rebuild sphinx first, the new python version gives me the error: running build_docs ... raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'Sphinx>=0.6.1' distribution was not found and is required by the application besides: shouldn't this package have a useflag for disabling doc? it has none!
Thank you for your report. I had not noticed documentation building for this package, but the need for sphinx and building documentation is indeed there. I will check what is the recommended approach for python packages but right now, making documentation conditional would require a patch to setup.py, since building doc is a dependency of building wheels.
Added dependency on sphinx. I tried to separate the doc following https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/distutils.html#building-documentation-via-sphinx but upstream has broken their distribution channels in several way to make simple patching and the proper source fetching onerous. I decided to give up rather than digging deeply in a way that would not be sustainable for me. I am guessing I should check other packages from the 3-manyfolds org for similar sphinx issue. The broken distribution thing is also org wide :(
