Setuptools 58+

Summary

Update to a new upstream release of python-setuptools that is not completely compatible with previous releases. Since version 58+ upstream removed support for 2to3 during builds. This is a breaking change and projects are encouraged to port to a unified codebase.

Owner

Name: Tomáš Hrnčiar
Email: thrnciar@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 36
Last updated: 2021-10-01
FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Setuptools is a package development process library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects by enhancing the Python standard library distutils (distribution utilities). It changes fast and it often introduces breaking changes such as the removal of support for 2to3 during the builds in version 58.0.0 which was deprecated since version 46.2.0 present in Fedora 33. use_2to3 used to help to translate Python 2.x programs to Python 3.x. But since Python 2 reached its end of life on 1st January 2020 and lib2to3 was removed from Python 3 in version 3.10, developers are encouraged to drop support for Python 2 and migrate to Python 3. It is still possible to use command line 2to3 tool in Python 3.10, but it will be deprecated in 3.11 and removed in 3.13.

List of packages that will likely fail to build, because they use the removed use_2to3 option.

Maintainers by package:

fail2ban atkac hobbes1069 jgu orion
playitagainsam churchyard
pybluez limb
pyp2rpm gordonmessmer kevin
python-anyjson fab mrunge sundaram
python-behave pschindl
python-concurrentloghandler dcallagh
python-deap zbyszek
python-demjson lmacken thm
python-flask-openid frantisekz pjp sundaram
python-funcparserlib dridi
python-jsmin ignatenkobrain
python-libusb1 jonny
python-mailer fab
python-marathon apevec dmsimard
python-nose-cover3 mrunge ngompa pingou
python-parse_type ignatenkobrain
python-proteus sharkcz
python-pypng kevin ralph
python-pysam davidsch
python-relatorio sharkcz
python-rnc2rng ignatenkobrain
python-simpleeval sharkcz
python-speaklater ondrejj
python-sphinx-bootstrap-theme besser82 sic
python-spyking-circus ankursinha
python-suds jortel swt2c
python-tempita jcapitao kylev
python-vatnumber sharkcz
python-xunitparser ignatenkobrain lbrabec tflink
trytond sharkcz
trytond-account sharkcz
trytond-account-be sharkcz
trytond-account-de-skr03 sharkcz
trytond-account-invoice sharkcz
trytond-account-invoice-history sharkcz
trytond-account-invoice-line-standalone sharkcz
trytond-account-product sharkcz
trytond-account-statement sharkcz
trytond-account-stock-anglo-saxon sharkcz
trytond-account-stock-continental sharkcz
trytond-analytic-account sharkcz
trytond-analytic-invoice sharkcz
trytond-analytic-purchase sharkcz
trytond-analytic-sale sharkcz
trytond-company sharkcz
trytond-company-work-time sharkcz
trytond-country sharkcz
trytond-currency sharkcz
trytond-dashboard sharkcz
trytond-google-maps sharkcz
trytond-ldap-authentication sharkcz
trytond-party sharkcz
trytond-party-siret sharkcz
trytond-product sharkcz
trytond-product-cost-fifo sharkcz
trytond-product-cost-history sharkcz
trytond-product-price-list sharkcz
trytond-project sharkcz
trytond-project-plan sharkcz
trytond-project-revenue sharkcz
trytond-purchase sharkcz
trytond-purchase-invoice-line-standalone sharkcz
trytond-sale sharkcz
trytond-sale-opportunity sharkcz
trytond-sale-price-list sharkcz
trytond-stock sharkcz
trytond-stock-forecast sharkcz
trytond-stock-inventory-location sharkcz
trytond-stock-location-sequence sharkcz
trytond-stock-product-location sharkcz
trytond-stock-supply sharkcz
trytond-stock-supply-day sharkcz
trytond-timesheet sharkcz

Packages by maintainer:

ankursinha python-spyking-circus
apevec python-marathon
atkac fail2ban
besser82 python-sphinx-bootstrap-theme
churchyard playitagainsam
davidsch python-pysam
dcallagh python-concurrentloghandler
dmsimard python-marathon
dridi python-funcparserlib
fab python-anyjson python-mailer
frantisekz python-flask-openid
gordonmessmer pyp2rpm
hobbes1069 fail2ban
ignatenkobrain python-jsmin python-parse_type python-rnc2rng python-xunitparser
jcapitao python-tempita
jgu fail2ban
jonny python-libusb1
jortel python-suds
kevin pyp2rpm python-pypng
kylev python-tempita
lbrabec python-xunitparser
limb pybluez
lmacken python-demjson
mrunge python-anyjson python-nose-cover3
ngompa python-nose-cover3
ondrejj python-speaklater
orion fail2ban
pingou python-nose-cover3
pjp python-flask-openid
pschindl python-behave
ralph python-pypng
sharkcz python-proteus python-relatorio python-simpleeval python-vatnumber trytond trytond-account trytond-account-be trytond-account-de-skr03 trytond-account-invoice trytond-account-invoice-history trytond-account-invoice-line-standalone trytond-account-product trytond-account-statement trytond-account-stock-anglo-saxon trytond-account-stock-continental trytond-analytic-account trytond-analytic-invoice trytond-analytic-purchase trytond-analytic-sale trytond-company trytond-company-work-time trytond-country trytond-currency trytond-dashboard trytond-google-maps trytond-ldap-authentication trytond-party trytond-party-siret trytond-product trytond-product-cost-fifo trytond-product-cost-history trytond-product-price-list trytond-project trytond-project-plan trytond-project-revenue trytond-purchase trytond-purchase-invoice-line-standalone trytond-sale trytond-sale-opportunity trytond-sale-price-list trytond-stock trytond-stock-forecast trytond-stock-inventory-location trytond-stock-location-sequence trytond-stock-product-location trytond-stock-supply trytond-stock-supply-day trytond-timesheet
sic python-sphinx-bootstrap-theme
sundaram python-anyjson python-flask-openid
swt2c python-suds
tflink python-xunitparser
thm python-demjson
zbyszek python-deap

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora offers cutting edge technologies for Python and Setuptools is one of the most important Python packages. By doing this update we bring users the latest features that Setuptools offers and also we enable Fedora 36 to receive future updates as well.

Scope

Proposal owners: update python-setuptools to 58.x.x, provide help

Other developers: report problems to the upstream and backport patch to the affected packages. The impact can be tested using copr repository where Setuptools 58.0.4 has been built.

Release engineering: #Releng issue number

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with Objectives:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

There is a clean upgrade path from current version to python-setuptools 58.x.x. Fedora users using RPM-packaged Setuptools will use Setuptools 58.x.x by default.

How To Test

Find the package you want to update in this copr repository and check the build logs to determine the fail cause.
Work with the upstream to resolve the issue or drop the need for 2to3 during the build of the package.
When updating the package, you can test it using the same copr repository where the latest version of Setuptools has been built.
Let us know if something doesn't work as it should.

User Experience

Regular distro users shouldn't notice any change in Setuptools behaviour, except for packages that use 2to3 to transform Python 2.x source code into Python 3.x source code. Such packages will fail with error in <package name> setup command: use_2to3 is invalid and should be fixed by their maintainers.

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Documentation

Setuptools changelog

This page is the documentation.

Release Notes

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