0037306: Build scripts: use subprocess module

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0037306	mantisbt	code cleanup	public	2026-07-13 18:29	2026-07-13 18:40

Reporter	dregad	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Target Version	2.29.0	Fixed in Version	2.29.0

Summary	0037306: Build scripts: use subprocess module
Description	The scripts use a variety of methods to run external processes: os.system, os.popen (deprecated in Python 3.14), subprocess.call and subprocess.check_call. We should standardise on using subprocess.run (available since Python 3.5) instead. Also avoid creating a sub shell.
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MantisBT: master aca9cbee 2026-07-12 12:16 dregad Details Diff	Replace os.system by subprocess.run Fixes 0037306	Affected Issues 0037306
	mod - build/buildrelease-repo.py	Diff File
	mod - build/docbook-manual-repo.py	Diff File
MantisBT: master c515fd3e 2026-07-12 18:47 dregad Details Diff	Replace os.popen by subprocess.run Fixes 0037306	Affected Issues 0037306
	mod - build/buildrelease-repo.py	Diff File
	mod - build/docbook-manual-repo.py	Diff File
MantisBT: master 1fcde447 2026-07-12 19:00 dregad Details Diff	Replace subprocess call/check_call by run Fixes 0037306	Affected Issues 0037306
	mod - build/buildrelease-repo.py	Diff File
	mod - build/buildrelease.py	Diff File
	mod - build/docbook-manual.py	Diff File