Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 01:09:29AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=00d95fcc4dee66dfb6980de6f2973b32f973a1eb > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 10:24:49PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Source: linux > > Version: 6.16.12-1 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: ftbfs > > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the > > past) > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], > > [email protected] > > > > The linux source package didn't successfully build its Architecture: all > > binary packages (notably linux-libc-dev, which is build-essential) on > > the official buildds: > > > > >Running Sphinx v8.2.3 > > >Using alabaster theme > > >loading translations [en]... done > > > > > >Extension error! > > ... > > > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/registry.py", line 544, > > > in load_extension > > > raise ExtensionError( > > > __('Could not import extension %s') % extname, err > > > ) from err > > > sphinx.errors.ExtensionError: Could not import extension > > > kernel_include (exception: No module named > > > 'docutils.utils.error_reporting') > > > > (Is this perhaps an incompatible change in the recent python-docutils > > upload?) > > Seems so: > The ErrorString() and SafeString() docutils functions were helpers meant > to > ease the handling of encodings during the Python 3 transition. There is > no > real need for them after Python 3.6, and docutils 0.22 removes them, > breaking the docs build > > That's from the commit I'm linking above (untested).
Yes thank you to both. This affects the linux upload as well as done in experimental I'm looking if we can cherry-pick changes from 6.18-rc1 containing the fix down to unstable asap. Regards, Salvatore

