FTBFS: AssertionError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

python-zipstream 1.1.0-2 currently fails to build from source with the following errors:
test_write_unicode (tests.test_pointerio.PointerIOTestCase) ... ok
test_init_mode (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase) ... FAIL
test_init_no_args (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase) ... ERROR
test_write_file (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase) ... ERROR
test_write_iterable (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase) ... ERROR
test_write_iterable_no_archive (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase) ... ERROR

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ERROR: test_init_no_args (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/tests/test_zipstream.py", line 28, in test_init_no_args
    zipstream.ZipFile()
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/zipstream/__init__.py", line 167, in __init__
    zipfile.ZipFile.__init__(self, fileobj, mode=mode, compression=compression, allowZip64=allowZip64)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/zipfile.py", line 1037, in __init__
    self.fp.seek(self.start_dir)
TypeError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

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ERROR: test_write_file (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/tests/test_zipstream.py", line 43, in test_write_file
    z = zipstream.ZipFile(mode='w')
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/zipstream/__init__.py", line 167, in __init__
    zipfile.ZipFile.__init__(self, fileobj, mode=mode, compression=compression, allowZip64=allowZip64)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/zipfile.py", line 1037, in __init__
    self.fp.seek(self.start_dir)
TypeError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

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ERROR: test_write_iterable (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/tests/test_zipstream.py", line 58, in test_write_iterable
    z = zipstream.ZipFile(mode='w')
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/zipstream/__init__.py", line 167, in __init__
    zipfile.ZipFile.__init__(self, fileobj, mode=mode, compression=compression, allowZip64=allowZip64)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/zipfile.py", line 1037, in __init__
    self.fp.seek(self.start_dir)
TypeError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

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ERROR: test_write_iterable_no_archive (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/tests/test_zipstream.py", line 78, in test_write_iterable_no_archive
    z = zipstream.ZipFile(mode='w')
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/zipstream/__init__.py", line 167, in __init__
    zipfile.ZipFile.__init__(self, fileobj, mode=mode, compression=compression, allowZip64=allowZip64)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/zipfile.py", line 1037, in __init__
    self.fp.seek(self.start_dir)
TypeError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

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FAIL: test_init_mode (tests.test_zipstream.ZipStreamTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/tests/test_zipstream.py", line 32, in test_init_mode
    zipstream.ZipFile(mode='w')
TypeError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/tests/test_zipstream.py", line 34, in test_init_mode
    self.fail(err)
AssertionError: seek() missing 1 required positional argument: 'whence'

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Ran 11 tests in 0.026s

FAILED (failures=1, errors=4)
E: pybuild pybuild:256: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.5 setup.py test

(see https://launchpadlibrarian.net/211978288/buildlog_ubuntu-wily-amd64.python-zipstream_1.1.0-2_BUILDING.txt.gz for complete log)

I get the same errors when I attempt to build the package on Ubuntu Wily, but I was not able to reproduce the issue on Debian unstable. Might be related to the on-going python3.5 issues.

[Aigars Mahinovs (aigarius)]

Forwarded upstream - https://github.com/allanlei/python-zipstream/issues/9

[Aigars Mahinovs (aigarius)]

Fixed in sid in 1.1.3-1

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

1.1.3-1 has been synced and built successfully in Xenial now. Thanks for forwarding this issue upstream :)