Bug#950885: RFS: scons-doc/3.1.2+repack-2 -- Documentation for SCons, a replacement for Make

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 07:16:07PM +0100, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
>    Package name    : scons-doc
>    Version         : 3.1.2+repack-2

> Changes since the last upload:
> 
>    * debian/watch: Add repacksuffix.
>    * debian/copyright:
>      - Add year 2020 to debian/*.
>    * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.5.0 (No changes needed).
>    * upload to unstable (Closes: #943200).

Alas, it fails at the "clean" stage:

dh clean
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
scons -c
*** Error loading site_init file './site_scons/site_init.py':
*** cannot import site init file './site_scons/site_init.py':
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.util':
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1396:
    _exec_main(parser, values)
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1359:
    _main(parser)
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 971:
    _load_all_site_scons_dirs(d.get_internal_path())
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 817:
    _load_site_scons_dir(d)
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 751:
    exec(compile(fp.read(), fp.name, 'exec'), site_m)
  File "./site_scons/site_init.py", line 2:
    from Utilities import is_windows, whereis, platform, deb_date
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/site_scons/Utilities.py", line 4:
    import distutils.util
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:7: override_dh_auto_clean] Error 2


Meow!
-- 
⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ The ill-thought conversion to time64_t will make us suffer from
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ the Y292B problem.  So let's move the Epoch by 435451400064000000
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ (plus a safety margin in case of bad physicists) and make it
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ unsigned -- that'll almost double the range.