Undocumented dependency on python-testtools

[Michael Opdenacker]

I'm using Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10

I ran into the below issue when I tried to use the 11.11 Linaro Android release for Panda...

sudo ./linaro-image-tools/linaro-android-media-create --mmc /dev/sdc --dev panda --system system.tar.bz2 --boot boot.tar.bz2 --userdata userdata.tar.bz2
[sudo] password for mike:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./linaro-image-tools/linaro-android-media-create", line 43, in <module>
    from linaro_image_tools.utils import ensure_command, is_arm_host
  File "/home/mike/work/linaro/2011.11-android-panda/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/utils.py", line 28, in <module>
    from testtools import try_import
ImportError: No module named testtools

This error was solved by running:
sudo apt-get install python-testtools

However, novice users may be clueless when they face such an error.

It would be useful if l-a-m-c could complain in a more polite way that this package is missing.

Another solution would be to document it properly in the release instructions (such as http://releases.linaro.org/11.11/android/leb-panda/).

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

It's a known issue. Next release doesn't depends on python-testtools package anymore.