FTBFS in latest archive rebuild test

[Adam Conrad]

Binary package hint: pychecker

This package failed to build from source in a recent archive rebuild
test. The logs for the rebuild test can be found at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-autotest/2007-December/thread.html

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-autotest/2007-December/000043.html
Automatic build of pychecker_0.8.17-5 on terranova by sbuild/i386 1.170.5

Running test17...
8d7
< test_input/test17.py:16: Cannot return a value from __init__
  test17 FAILED

Running test22...
31,32d30
< test_input/test22.py:79: ... % 1 may be constant
< test_input/test22.py:81: ... % 1 may be constant
  test22 FAILED

Running test34...
6a7,10
> locale.py:203: Local variable (digits) shadows global defined on line 4 in file test_input/test34.py
> locale.py:204: Local variable (digits) shadows global defined on line 4 in file test_input/test34.py
> locale.py:208: Local variable (digits) shadows global defined on line 4 in file test_input/test34.py
>
  test34 FAILED

Running test48...
25d24
< test_input/test48.py:57: Statement appears to have no effect
  test48 FAILED

Running test53...
5d4
< test_input/test53.py:5: Operator (~~) doesn't exist, statement has no effect
  test53 FAILED

Running test71...
5d4
< test_input/test71.py:8: Code appears to be unreachable
7d5
< test_input/test71.py:20: Code appears to be unreachable
  test71 FAILED

Running test77...
5c5
< File "test_input/test77.py", line 8
---
> File "test_input/test77.py", line 8, in <module>()
7c7
< MyError: **error formatting exception value**
---
> MyError:
  test77 FAILED

Running test87...
15,16c15,16
< test_input/test87.py:16: Comparisons with True are not necessary and may not work as expected
< test_input/test87.py:16: Comparisons with true are not necessary and may not work as expected
---
> test_input/test87.py:17: Comparisons with True are not necessary and may not work as expected
> test_input/test87.py:18: Comparisons with true are not necessary and may not work as expected
  test87 FAILED

Running test88...
1a2,3
> test_input/test88.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the gopherlib module is deprecated
> import gopherlib
  test88 FAILED

91/100 tests passed (9 failures).
Failed test(s): test17 test22 test34 test48 test53 test71 test77 test87 test88
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

i386 only?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

new ->confirmed

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Caroline: No, arch:all which is build on the i386 buildd.

I've looked into this and found out that even the last Debian revision passes all tests only with pyhton2.4 and not python2.5.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This is a blocker for spe too.