Bug 701602

Summary:	=dev-python/fonttools-4.0.1 dependency issue with several Python2.7-dependent packages (dev-python/booleanOperations, dev-python/defcon, dev-python/nototools, dev-python/ufoLib)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Red <redblade7>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	crabbedhaloablution, jstein, mackal.cook, poncho, python, redblade7
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8393630.html
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699756
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Red 2019-11-30 17:06:05 UTC

Hi,

=dev-python/fonttools-4.0.1 lacks support for Python 2.7. When it was stabilized (bug 699756) it causes a dependency conflict with several packages, including:

* dev-python/booleanOperations
* dev-python/defcon
* dev-python/nototools
* dev-python/ufoLib

These packages should be revised to depend on <=dev-python/fonttools-3.44.0

More info can be seen at this forum thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8393630.html

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2019-11-30 17:28:13 UTC

This rather sounds like you have misconfigured your PYTHON_TARGETS.

Comment 2 Gregory Beauregard 2019-12-01 02:01:49 UTC

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #1)
> This rather sounds like you have misconfigured your PYTHON_TARGETS.

I ran into the same issue after it stabilized

Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2019-12-01 04:22:17 UTC

I ran into the issue long ago in unstable myself, I should probably have considered filling a report back then but my solution was just to mask the newer fonttools until packages which depends on >=dev-python/fonttools-3.36.0 despite supporting _only_ python2.7 stop trying to get the >=4 version that doesn't support it (see nototools/noto-emoji and likely others).

I guess it's more specifically be a bug with those packages rather than fonttools.

Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2019-12-01 09:47:44 UTC

If what you are talking about is the paste seen in the forum thread, that is not  a bug.

Comment 5 Gregory Beauregard 2019-12-01 11:30:29 UTC

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #4)
> If what you are talking about is the paste seen in the forum thread, that is
> not  a bug.

Yeah, basically Gentoo ends up in a state where world updates report the listed dependency conflict if you install noto-emoji on stable. If it's not a bug then this should be able to be closed.

Comment 6 Guido Kroon 2019-12-01 13:24:08 UTC

Got the same issue. Should be easily fixed in the package ebuilds, right?

Comment 7 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2019-12-01 14:10:20 UTC

I think the actual "bug" is that the whole dependency conflict messages is going to make people come here. Is there no more elegant way to handle this without having users either manually mask it (like I did, so I personally don't mind) or keep seeing this conflict message likely for months every time they try to update?

Comment 8 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2019-12-01 15:19:14 UTC

(In reply to Guido Kroon from comment #6)
> Got the same issue. Should be easily fixed in the package ebuilds, right?

No, you can't magically invent python3 support in the code.

Comment 9 Joe Breuer 2019-12-23 22:18:04 UTC

... shouldn't fonttols-4 be slotted then vs fonttools-3?

Comment 10 Michael Cook 2020-01-15 19:00:27 UTC

I'm now having several pages of conflicts due to dev-python/setuptools.


I do see there was a commit (nototools) that states "More updates to make Python 3 compatible" that isn't in the latest package, no idea if that means it's working yet or not (maybe working enough? no idea) But they haven't had a new release with that commit yet :/

Comment 11 Michał Górny archtester

2020-03-27 10:23:20 UTC

Version removed.  If you can repro with the current, feel free to reopen.