Python module name collision

[flimberger]

On Ubuntu 15.04, there is a name collision with the ubuntu package python-backports.ssl-match-hostname, which provides a python package /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/backports. This prevents imports from source/extensions/backports.py, which causes the build to fail. Is this an issue with sphinx in general, or specific to greybus-spec?

[gregkh]

It's specific to the extension package we are using on top of sphinx, which comes from https://github.com/jterrace/sphinxtr

Any suggestions as to how to resolve this are appreciated, or you can just not use Ubuntu, which is always a good idea :)

[flimberger]

It's not an Ubuntu-specific issue but a general one with the python search path and packages, I've opened an issue at the upstream repository. Possible workarounds are using a virtualenv without system site packages or renaming source/extensions/backports.py (and changing the import line in source/extensions/numfig.py:5to something else.

As I have a workaround for me and an issue filed upstream, I think this issue can be closed as it is not directly related to the spec.