[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/backports-9.8] users_guide: Restore compatibility with pre-packaging Python

[Ben Gamari (@bgamari)]

Ben Gamari pushed to branch wip/backports-9.8 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC


Commits:
25d9baea by Ben Gamari at 2023-08-09T02:43:23-04:00
users_guide: Restore compatibility with pre-packaging Python

The `packaging` package is not available in Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 9.
Fall back to distutils in this case to avoid incurring an extra
dependency.

- - - - -


1 changed file:

- docs/users_guide/flags.py


Changes:

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docs/users_guide/flags.py
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@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@ import sphinx
 from sphinx import addnodes
 from sphinx.domains.std import GenericObject
 from sphinx.errors import SphinxError
-from packaging.version import parse
+try:
+    from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
+except ImportError as e:
+    # N.B. `packaging` is not available in Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 9
+    from distutils import LooseVersion as parse_version
+
 from utils import build_table_from_list
 
 import os.path
@@ -628,8 +633,8 @@ def purge_flags(app, env, docname):
 
 def setup(app):
     # The override argument to add_directive_to_domain is only supported by >= 1.8
-    sphinx_version = parse(sphinx.__version__)
-    override_arg = {'override': True} if sphinx_version >= parse('1.8') else {}
+    sphinx_version = parse_version(sphinx.__version__)
+    override_arg = {'override': True} if sphinx_version >= parse_version('1.8') else {}
 
     # Add ghc-flag directive, and override the class with our own
     app.add_object_type('ghc-flag', 'ghc-flag')



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