unable to start repo tool

[Thomas Epperson]

When starting the repo command (with no arguments) in a initialized repo folder, it fails to start. Here is the traceback of the failure output on the shell.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tepperson/yocto/.repo/repo/main.py", line 56, in <module>
    from subcmds.version import Version
  File "/home/tepperson/yocto/.repo/repo/subcmds/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
    mod = __import__(__name__,
  File "/home/tepperson/yocto/.repo/repo/subcmds/help.py", line 20, in <module>
    from formatter import AbstractFormatter, DumbWriter
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'formatter'

[Mark Salyzyn (salyzyn)]

Why is this not being fixed? It was reported in May! There is no way to develop Android open source without this, as they depend on the repo tool to pull in their archive. I believe the issue is the repo package needs to be updated for python 3.4 since formatter was deprecated.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Yashas Javali (yashjavali-tss)]

While the bug is addressed is there any workaround available?

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

problem still present :(

[Nuha A (nbahaa)]

The problem is still there, is there any updates?

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

Can you work around by passing:

--repo-url=https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle

to your repo init command?

I downloaded a fresh local bundle:
wget https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle

and pass: --repo-url=/paht/to/clone.bundle

and it works for my situation, maybe it will help

[Siguza (siguza)]

This was fixed upstream in April 2021: https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+/0888a083ec6a23a75d3e681f08ef242acd862573
Versions 2.14 and later do not reference the formatter module anywhere, and neither do the source downloads for this package, as far as I can tell.

My best guess is that something pulls in a years-old version of this tool, but I have no idea what, why, or from where.