[LTP] [PATCH] doc: fix documentation build with latest setuptools

[Andrea Cervesato]

On Thu Feb 12, 2026 at 9:48 AM CET, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> > Hi!
> > > Force setuptools to version 81.0.0, which is the last one where linuxdoc
> > > still can be installed. Also, from python 3.12 setuptools is not
> > > available anymore when creating a new virtualenv, so we need to force
> > > its installation to ensure that documentation will be built.
>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
>
> +1, higher setuptools version is probably better as it's still working on the
> oldest distros (than 68 version I added in my patchset). IMHO it'd be good to
> add (before merge) a comment to requirements.txt that it's just a temporary
> workaround (once linuxdoc is released I'd upgrade it and remove the dependency).
>
> Kind regards,
> Petr

It's not a workaround, we need it because python 3.12 removed it from
virtualenv. It explained in the git commit message in my patch.

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Andrea Cervesato
SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux
andrea.cervesato@suse.com