pbr HEAD broken

[Andreas Jaeger]

Looking at https://review.openstack.org/430618, the tests fail in OpenStack CI. There's "ImportError: pbr.packaging.LocalDebVersion".

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

pbr is currently unreleasable, at least in part because it can't pass the release validation checks.

The change to the release validation code in https://review.openstack.org/430889 seems to indicate that the issue has something to do with pbr not being able to figure out its own name unless it is installed. That is, running "python setup.py --name" in a clone of the pbr repo without pbr preinstalled on the host fails due to the import error mentioned in the original bug description.

We don't want to special case pbr in our release projects, and the patch 430889 only fixes the validation and not the tarball job or anything else in the pipeline that may ask the deliverable for a name.

[Stephen Finucane (stephenfinucane)]

This seems to be functional now.