Updated: python packages

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12/09/2026 17:57, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 08/09/2026 07:02, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce wrote:
>> New release for
>>
>> UPDATED packages
> 
> Thanks very much for all your work on these.
> 
>> python312-sphinx-7.4.7-1-noarch.tar.xz
>> python312-sphinx-9.1.0-1-noarch.tar.xz
>> python39-sphinx-7.4.7-1-noarch.tar.xz
> 
> I updated python312-sphinx's dependencies on sourceware to add 
> python312-snowballstemmer (which seems to have gone missing) and 
> python312-roman-numerals (which is new), since these seem to be needed 
> to do anything.

It is always difficult to be sure of the tons of dependencies.
Moreover dependencies for testing are a nightmare
> Please consider adding these to the cygport for future versions of sphinx.
> 
> (also noticed in passing that python-roman and python-roman-numerals 
> seem to have a summary/description cut-and-pasted from elsewhere)

I will look on both.

I will also need to write and send you some patches to change defaults 
for src_test, src_compile and a way to define alternatives without 
writing every thing on the foo.cygport

To finish deploying all the missing python312-xxx is current priority

Regards
Marco


baseline for cygport with latest python packages:

DIFF_EXCLUDES+="version.py _version.py"


############## base test ###################

src_test() {
         for v in ${PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS//:/ }
         do
                 cd ${B}
                 export 
PYTHONPATH="${D}/usr/lib/python${v}/site-packages:/usr/lib/python${v}/site-packages"
                 echo "testing ${v}"
                 pytest-${v} || TRUE
         done
}

############## install with variants #####################

src_install() {
         cd ${B}
         python_wheel_install

         pushd ${D}/usr/bin
         for v in ${PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS//:/ }
         do
                 for x in foo1 foo2 foo3
                 do
                         sed -i -e "1s/.exe//g" ${x}
                         cp ${x} ${x}-${v}
                         sed -i -e "1s/python$/python${v}/g" ${x}-${v}
                         sed -i -e "1s/3.12/${v}/g" ${x}-${v}
                 done
         done
}

############## install with alternatives #################

src_install() {
     cd ${B}
     python_wheel_install

     pushd ${D}/usr/bin
     for v in ${PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS//:/ }
     do
         for x in tox
         do
             sed -i -e "1s/.exe//g" ${x}
             cp ${x} ${x}${v}
             sed -i -e "1s/python$/python${v}/g" ${x}${v}
             sed -i -e "1s/3.12/${v}/g" ${x}${v}
         done
     done

     # removing unversioned info
     rm tox

     # writing post install alternatives script for tox
     mkdir -p ${D}/etc/postinstall
     pushd ${D}/etc/postinstall
     for v in ${PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS//:/ }
     do
         ver=$(echo ${v} | sed "s/\.//")
         echo "# Install this package as a tox alternative.
TOX_VERSION=${v}
TOX_PRIORITY=${ver}
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/tox tox  /usr/bin/tox${v} ${ver}
" >> python${ver}-tox.sh
     done

     # writing pre remove alternatives script for tox
     mkdir -p ${D}/etc/preremove
     pushd ${D}/etc/preremove
     for v in ${PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS//:/ }
     do
         ver=$(echo ${v} | sed "s/\.//")
         echo "# Remove this package as  tox alternative.
/usr/sbin/alternatives --remove tox /usr/bin/tox${v}
" > python${ver}-tox.sh
     done
}