Subject: Re: bug#44779: python2-html2text (@2020.1.16) fails to build
From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
To: Fulbert <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:36:27 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 06:35:01PM +0100, Fulbert wrote:
> Hello !
> 
>   python2-html2text (@2020.1.16) fails to build with attached
> log file.
> 
>   I'm not a dev an have no idea why the directive "attr:"
> fails, but replacing it with the literal version allows setup
> to succeed.
> 
> ~~~
> $ sed -i 's/attr: html2text.__version__/2020.1.16/' html2text-2020.1.16/setup.cfg 
> ~~~
> 
> Best regards and thanks,
> Fulbert

Thank you for your report! With the python2 deprecation upstream
python2-html2text failing to build was addressed in commit
cc055349466d56e042c2e71c310142f91aaf78cf where python2-html2text is
pinned to 2019.8.11 with a note saying that it's the last version with
support for Python 2.

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