Re: Bug#1143297: debian-policy: FTBFS: Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:21:40 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hilmar Preuße [10/Aug 12:47pm +02] wrote:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/sphinx-intl", line 8, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main())
>              ~~~~^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1514, in __call__
>     return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
>            ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1435, in main
>     rv = self.invoke(ctx)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1902, in invoke
>     return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
>                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1298, in invoke
>     return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
>            ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 853, in invoke
>     return callback(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx_intl/commands.py", line 315, in update
>     basic.update(
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~^
>         locale_dir,
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>     ...<4 lines>...
>         jobs=jobs,
>         ^^^^^^^^^^
>     )
>     ^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx_intl/basic.py", line 107, in update
>     po_dir = os.path.join(locale_dir, lang, "LC_MESSAGES")
>   File "<frozen posixpath>", line 77, in join
> TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

Thanks.  It looks like it might be a bug in sphinx-intl, then.  I don't
see any intentional incompatible changes in the upstream CHANGES.rst.

Adding recent uploaders of sphinx-intl.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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