pycurl ftbfs in focal (missing python-sphinx)

[Matthias Klose]

[SRU Justification]
This package is unbuildable due to unsatisfiable build-dependencies, as seen in a focal test rebuild:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20200810-focal/+build/19799602

Missing build dependencies: python-sphinx

This makes the package unsupportable in the event a security update needs to be applied.

[Test case]
1. let the package attempt to build in focal
2. check if it succeeds.

[Regression potential]
Because the missing build-dependency is python-sphinx, which is only used for building the package documentation, the risk of regression is confined to a misbuild of the documentation. Regardless, this package will be held in -proposed because the runtime impact of a FTBFS is non-existent.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

missing SRU header

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pycurl into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pycurl/7.43.0.2-1ubuntu6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for focal for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

Already fix in Groovy and later.
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pycurl (7.43.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop python2 support; Closes: #937415
  * debian/control
    - annotate flaky as nocheck, patch by Helmut Grohne; Closes: #929194

 -- Sandro Tosi <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:22:15 -0400

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

The builds in proposed succeeded https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pycurl/7.43.0.2-1ubuntu6