[Bug 242842] security/suricata: Fails to build (5.0.0 PV=2) with Python 3.x

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242842

Kubilay Kocak <koobs at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|New                         |Open
           Severity|Affects Only Me             |Affects Some People
            Summary|security/suricata fails to  |security/suricata: Fails to
                   |compile (5.0.0 PV=2)        |build (5.0.0 PV=2) with
                   |                            |Python 3.x
                 CC|                            |koobs at FreeBSD.org,
                   |                            |python at FreeBSD.org
           Keywords|                            |needs-qa

--- Comment #3 from Kubilay Kocak <koobs at FreeBSD.org> ---
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/mailman/docutils-develop/thread/qk0aso$748n$1@blaine.gmane.org/

In particular, bits marked "py3: Replace 'ur' prefix":

https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/mailman/message/36748204/

Committed upstream as part of the larger py3 patchset in:

https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/8366/

I've run docutil' test suite against all Python 3 versions (3.5-3.8) and
they fail with many Python 3 errors (including for 'ur' prefixes)

A possibly naive/premature resolution to this be to *correctly* declare the
Python versions textproc/docutils supports (limiting it to Python 2.7, as is
its current version support), which should have been the case in the first
place, *but* this may have implications for ports that don't otherwise
use/import/invoke sphinx at runtime, and don't particularly care what version
of Python sphinx was built with.

In the above sense, this is similar to bug 237795

@Reporter, could you attach a bull log of the suricata failure please. It would
be interesting to see where/how/when sphinx is being invoked and in what exact
form

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