Package: python3-sphinx
Version: 9.1.0-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I just ran an apt upgrade on my Debian testing, and spotted a lot of Python
errors.
Happen that dpkg-reconfigure tries to use pypy3 to compile the
installed files, great, bug looks like python3-sphinx is using syntax that is
not compatible yet with pypy3:
# dpkg-reconfigure python3-sphinx
Failed to byte-compile
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/_cli/__init__.py: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/_cli/__init__.py", line 41
type _PARSER_SETUP = Callable[[argparse.ArgumentParser],
argparse.ArgumentParser]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
According to strace, the command executed by dpkg-reconfigure is `pypy3compile
-p python3-sphinx`:
# pypy3compile -p python3-sphinx
Failed to byte-compile
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/_cli/__init__.py: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/_cli/__init__.py", line 41
type _PARSER_SETUP = Callable[[argparse.ArgumentParser],
argparse.ArgumentParser]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I'm only pasting a single error, but there's 120 lines of error, all the same
about using `type` in Python code.
The `type` statement exists since Python 3.12:
- https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#whatsnew312-pep695
and pypy3 is only compatible with Python 3.11.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.14+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages python3-sphinx depends on:
ii python3 3.13.9-3
ii python3-alabaster 1.0.0-1
ii python3-babel 2.17.0-2
ii python3-defusedxml 0.7.1-3
ii python3-docutils 0.22.4+dfsg-1
ii python3-imagesize 2.0.0-1
ii python3-jinja2 3.1.6-2
ii python3-packaging 26.0-1
ii python3-pygments 2.19.2+dfsg-1
ii python3-requests 2.32.5+dfsg-1
ii python3-roman-numerals 4.1.0-1
ii python3-snowballstemmer 3.0.1-1
ii sphinx-common 9.1.0-2
Versions of packages python3-sphinx recommends:
ii make 4.4.1-3
ii python3-pil 12.2.0-1
Versions of packages python3-sphinx suggests:
pn dvipng <none>
ii dvisvgm 3.6+ds-1
ii fonts-freefont-otf 20211204+svn4273-4
ii imagemagick 8:7.1.2.18+dfsg1-1
ii imagemagick-7.q16 [imagemagick] 8:7.1.2.18+dfsg1-1
pn latexmk <none>
pn node-mathjax-full <none>
pn python3-sphinx-rtd-theme <none>
pn sphinx-doc <none>
ii tex-gyre 20180621-7
ii texlive-fonts-extra 2026.20260328-5
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2026.20260328-4
ii texlive-latex-extra 2026.20260328-5
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2026.20260328-4
ii texlive-plain-generic 2026.20260328-5
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