pbr requires the dist name and module name to be the same

[Fathi Boudra]

I tried to package jenkins-job-builder 0.8.0 for Debian/Ubuntu and it failed to build from scratch:

/usr/bin/make -C doc html man BUILDDIR=/tmp/buildd/jenkins-job-builder-0.8.0/build/docs
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/jenkins-job-builder-0.8.0/doc'
sphinx-build -b html -d /tmp/buildd/jenkins-job-builder-0.8.0/build/docs/doctrees -W source /tmp/buildd/jenkins-job-builder-0.8.0/build/docs/html
Making output directory...
Running Sphinx v1.2.2

Exception occurred:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-wmsosv.log, if you want to report the issue to the developers.

After investigation, the exception is triggered by pbr failing to get jenkins-jobs-builder version.
Further digging into pbr/packaging.py code and get_version function, we fail to get the version from PKG-INFO because package_name = "jenkins_jobs" while "jenkins-job-builders" is expected (and tested).

In jenkins-job-builder, the distribution name is "jenkins-job-builder" but the module name is "jenkins_jobs".
Obviously, pbr doesn't like that as we can see also on https://bugs.launchpad.net/pbr/+bug/1310008 .

As an ugly workaround, we can force PBR_VERSION and will bypass PKG-INFO check.

I understand the bug is mostly a pbr bug but I doubt we'll get a fix in distro. Please advise on proper way to fix the issue with released pbr (0.7.0 in Trusty).

[Marc Abramowitz (msabramo)]

The following change set fixed the issue that you linked to (also involves package name but it's about coverage not working because of a differing package name) - https://review.openstack.org/89205

[Marc Abramowitz (msabramo)]

I'll let Monty Taylor weigh in on this one, but I wonder if packaging a new version of pbr might help. Current version on PyPI is 0.8.2.

[Khai Do (zaro0508)]

This issue is fixed with the following changes..
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/76200/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/80724/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/90658/

[Khai Do (zaro0508)]

jenkins-job-builder release 0.3.4 is the last release WITHOUT pbr.

jenkins-job-builder 0.4.x releases are pbr enabled.

[Khai Do (zaro0508)]

Please ignore comment #5, that comment was for python-jenkins NOT for jenkins-job-builder.

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

Since jenkins-job-builder is packaging with pbr now, it appears this problem is resolved. If that's incorrect, please reopen the bug.