Re: Anyone else seeing gimp & qemu build errors with py-pip-25.2

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 at 20:37, Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 08:28:01PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > After py-pip-25.2 was updated to 25.2 I'm seeing qemu and gimp build errors
> >
> > It looks like qemu is looking for LegacyMatcher from distlib.version
> > which no longer appears to be present (that is distlib.version no
> > longer exists)
>
> gimp built fine for me after the pip update.
> What is the exact error you get?

Actually... the gimp error may be related to switching my build box to
netbsd-11 (newly available edge on which to bleed :) - will poke some
more

> qemu has a problem with py-docutils 0.22. I'll give the upstreams a
> day for a fix, then I'll revert (it's low in the dependency chain and
> many other packages still build fine).

For qemu the pip issue is now documented at
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3062

David