Help on Meson build Error

[Ján Tomko]

On a Friday in 2020, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:23:57AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>> On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 10:16 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:03:24PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
>> > > /usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict docs/manpages/virsh.rst
>> > > docs/manpages/virsh.rst:41: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block" directive:
>> > > 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied.
>> > >
>> > > .. code-block::
>> > >
>> > >    virsh [OPTION]... <command> <domain> [ARG]...
>> >
>> > This is a sign of having a bad version of "rst2html5" installed.
>> >
>> > We expect to be using  rst2html5 that comes with python docutils
>> > package.
>>
>> Yeah, the python3-docutils Debian package will contain a working
>> rst2html5 binary.
>>
>> > There is a completely different rst2html5 that people might get
>> > from "pip" if you did "pip install rst2html5". This version is
>> > broken and unusable and so needs to be removed.
>>
>> Can we do something to get that package off PyPi? It's not the first
>> time the overlap has caused trouble for our users, and it certainly
>> won't be the last...
>
>Well it is not really our place to demand its removal. It isn't violating
>any rules of PyPi and AFAICT, it existed before docutils provided the
>same binary name.
>
>The only good course of action is probably to submit a patch to actually
>make it work.
>

I'll see whether we can somehow detect the correct version earlier.

Jano
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