buildbot: FTBFS on unstable and needs rebuild for sqlalchemy transition

[James Page]

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/794300:

Package: buildbot
Version: 0.8.9-2
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Currently uninstallable in sid due to sqlalchemy updates and needs rebuild, but:

[SKIPPED]
Need to install txrequests to test http steps

buildbot.test.unit.test_steps_http.TestHTTPStep.test_404
buildbot.test.unit.test_steps_http.TestHTTPStep.test_POST
buildbot.test.unit.test_steps_http.TestHTTPStep.test_basic
buildbot.test.unit.test_steps_http.TestHTTPStep.test_header
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[ERROR]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/buildbot-0.8.9/buildbot/test/unit/test_process_buildstep.py", line 386, in test_updateSummary_running_empty_dict
    step._step_status.setText.assert_not_called()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mock/mock.py", line 915, in assert_not_called
    raise AssertionError(msg)
exceptions.AssertionError: Expected 'setText' to not have been called. Called 1 times.

buildbot.test.unit.test_process_buildstep.TestBuildStep.test_updateSummary_running_empty_dict
===============================================================================
[ERROR]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/buildbot-0.8.9/buildbot/test/unit/test_util.py", line 235, in test_broken_locale
    config.error.assert_called()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mock/mock.py", line 721, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(name)
exceptions.AttributeError: assert_called

buildbot.test.unit.test_util.FunctionalEnvironment.test_broken_locale
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2968 tests in 17.768s

FAILED (skips=30, errors=2, successes=2936)
debian/rules:26: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/buildbot-0.8.9'
debian/rules:9: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

[James Page (james-page)]

Note that these build failures are not due to the sqlalchemy transition itself.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

The Debian bug report was closed and 0.8.12-3 built without problems on Ubuntu 16.04, so I believe this can be considered fixed.