[oi-dev] I've given up on gnome-doc-utils

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [oi-dev] I've given up on gnome-doc-utils, Andreas...:

> Am 05.07.21 um 23:20 schrieb Gary Mills:
>> In an attempt to eliminate dependancies on python-27, I came
>> eventually to the gnome-doc-utils package.  Reluctantly, I had to give
>> up my attempt.  The product was last updated in 2012 and has no
>> python-3 support.  Most of the work is conversion of the python code
>> from 2 to 3, using the python bindings for libxml2.  Somebody who
>> knows more about python than I do may be able to accomplish this.  The
>> alternative is to abandon the package and perhaps any packages that
>> require this one.  I'm moving on to other packages.
>> 
> The question is with what it has been replaced upstream. Maybe we should
> follow...

It appears to be completely deprecated (not replaced by something else),
but some packages have not dropped it for their documentation.

Fedora has a patch against gnome-doc-utils 0.20.10 that appears to
convert it to use python3:

 	https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnome-doc-utils/blob/master/f/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3.patch

Tim
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