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I fixed the pyparsing version constraint and removed the dependency on python-future. However the package is still broken on Python 3.13 and later because of the removal of the imp module. The replacement, importlib, is not drop-in and I'm not planning on figuring out how to patch the code.

The wfuzz project also seems dead and I'm not using it any longer, so I'm disowning the package. Maybe someone else can take it and continue the work.

If possible, please remove the dependency on python-furure/ make the package working without python-future:

WARNING: python-future package is not compatible with Python 3.13

The python-future project was created in 2013 to attempt to save Python from the schism of version incompatibility that was threatening to tear apart the language (as Perl 6 contributed to the death of Perl).

That time is now past. Thanks to a huge porting effort across the Python community, Python 3 eventually thrived. Python 2 reached its end of life in 2020 and the python-future package should no longer be necessary. Use it to help with porting legacy code to Python 3 but don’t depend on it for new code.

If you use packages that depend on it, please contact maintainers and/or upstream of these packages and try to work out whether this dependency is really needed.

Regards and thanks for this package!

For anyone struggling to make @alexbraga’s fix work:

1 - Locate the build directory for your AUR helper. I'm using Pikaur, for example, so it stores the build files in /var/cache/private/pikaur/build. You can try a search by running:

sudo find / -iname wfuzz-git 2>/dev/null

2 - Edit the PKGBUILD. Since a small modification is needed in the affected file, add the following snippet (this code modification is essentially what @alexbraga suggested):

prepare() { sed -i 's/2.4*;/2.4;/' "/var/cache/private/pikaur/build/wfuzz-git/src/wfuzz/setup.py" }

Or you can apply the code suggested by @alexbraga, changing the file path.

3 - Rebuild the package.

Hope this helps someone :)

@alexbraga said to

1- Clone the wfuzz-git repository from the AUR and enter the folder

2- Create a backup of setup.py

but... there's no src folder there?

For those facing the error, I wrote the following step-by-step originally for wfuzz-git package, but I believe it should work here as well. Keep in mind the modifications in file paths where applied:

Warning: 'classifiers' should be a list, got type 'tuple'
error in wfuzz setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers; Expected end or semicolon (after version specifier)
    pyparsing>=2.4*;python_version>="3.5"
             ~~~~~^
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: wfuzz-git-exit status 4

Here's a fix:

1- Clone the wfuzz-git repository from the AUR and enter the folder:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/wfuzz-git.git
cd wfuzz-git

2- Create a backup of setup.py:

cp src/wfuzz/setup.py src/wfuzz/setup.py.orig

3- Modify the setup.py file:

Open the setup.py file in a text editor, find the line 'pyparsing>=2.4*;python_version>="3.5"' and remove the asterisk after 2.4:

'pyparsing>=2.4;python_version>="3.5"'

4- Create the patch file

Navigate to the src/wfuzz directory and generate the patch file:

cd src/wfuzz
diff -u setup.py.orig setup.py > fix_install_requires.patch

5- Go back to the wfuzz-git directory and open the PKGBUILD file for editing:

cd ../..
nano PKGBUILD

6- Add the prepare() function in PKGBUILD right after build():

prepare() {
  cd "$_name"
  sed -i "s|__SETUP_PATH__|$(pwd)/setup.py|" "$srcdir/wfuzz/fix_install_requires.patch"
  patch -p0 < "$srcdir/wfuzz/fix_install_requires.patch"
}

7- Save the changes and exit the text editor.

8- Continue with the installation:

makepkg -si

==> Starting package()...
Warning: 'classifiers' should be a list, got type 'tuple'
error in wfuzz setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers; Expected end or semicolon (after version specifier)
    pyparsing>=2.4*;python_version>="3.5"
             ~~~~~^

@PedroHLC, added. Thanks!

Missing python-sphinx as makedepends

Updated to 2.4.5 and also packages HTML docs, man page and wordlists. I had to relax the pycurl version requirement which I think was accidentally made too strict, but if you encounter any bugs, please yell at me.

I switched it to Python 3 and corrected the deps.