ansible-core fails its autopkg tests with Python 3.12

[Simon Chopin]

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/1061782:

Package: src:ansible-core
Version: 2.14.13-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid trixie ftbfs
User: <email address hidden>
Usertags: python3.12

With python3-defaults from experimental, the package fails its autopkg
tests:

[...]
231s autopkgtest [13:33:12]: test unit: [-----------------------
231s This version of ansible-test cannot be executed with Python version
3.12.1. Supported Python versions are: 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
231s autopkgtest [13:33:12]: test unit: -----------------------]
231s autopkgtest [13:33:12]: test unit: - - - - - - - - - - results - -
- - - - - - - -
231s unit FAIL non-zero exit status 1
232s autopkgtest [13:33:13]: test unit: - - - - - - - - - - stderr - -
- - - - - - - -
232s This version of ansible-test cannot be executed with Python version
3.12.1. Supported Python versions are: 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
232s autopkgtest [13:33:13]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
232s unit FAIL non-zero exit status 1

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

Sadly, removal is not simple as the dependency chain is rather long (I gave up when bpfcc showed up, since it's a package that is/will be MIRed...)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ansible-core - 2.16.3-0ubuntu1

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ansible-core (2.16.3-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 2.16.3:
    - deb822 repository support (Closes: #1057640)
    - Python 3.12 support (Closes: #1061782, LP: #2052530)
  * Refresh patches

 -- Simon Chopin <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:35:46 +0100

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Right now tests are failing on armhf and arm64. This seems to be the failure:
1357s ________________________ test_start_daemon_with_no_mock ________________________
1357s [gw5] linux -- Python 3.12.2 /usr/bin/python3
1357s
1357s tmp_path = PosixPath('/tmp/pytest-of-ubuntu/pytest-11/popen-gw5/test_start_daemon_with_no_mock0')
1357s
1357s def test_start_daemon_with_no_mock(tmp_path):
1357s # This is an ugly fix to get this to pass in CI
1357s p = Path.cwd().parents
1357s sys.path.insert(0, str(p[2]))
1357s my_socket = tmp_path / "socket"
1357s turbo_socket = turbo_common.AnsibleTurboSocket(socket_path=str(my_socket), ttl=1)
1357s assert turbo_socket.start_server()
1357s time.sleep(0.5)
1357s assert my_socket.is_socket()
1357s time.sleep(0.8)
1357s > assert not my_socket.exists()
1357s E AssertionError: assert not True
1357s E + where True = <bound method Path.exists of PosixPath('/tmp/pytest-of-ubuntu/pytest-11/popen-gw5/test_start_daemon_with_no_mock0/socket')>()
1357s E + where <bound method Path.exists of PosixPath('/tmp/pytest-of-ubuntu/pytest-11/popen-gw5/test_start_daemon_with_no_mock0/socket')> = PosixPath('/tmp/pytest-of-ubuntu/pytest-11/popen-gw5/test_start_daemon_with_no_mock0/socket').exists
1357s
1357s tests/unit/plugins/module_utils/turbo/test_turbo_module.py:92: AssertionError
1357s - generated xml file: /tmp/autopkgtest.L4z3bs/build.GQa/src/ansible_collections/cloud/common/tests/output/junit/python3.12-module_utils-units.xml -
1357s =========================== short test summary info ============================
1357s FAILED tests/unit/plugins/module_utils/turbo/test_turbo_module.py::test_start_daemon_with_no_mock

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Notes: check if everything from https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80426 is present in our packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ansible - 9.2.0+dfsg-0ubuntu4

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ansible (9.2.0+dfsg-0ubuntu4) noble; urgency=medium

  * d/tests:
    - set HOME to a writeable directory
    - always run all test cases
  * Suggest python3-jsonschema for jsonschema validate plugin
  * Add patches to replace deprecated assertion methods for
    Python 3.12 compatibility (Closes: #1061781, LP: #2052530)

ansible (9.2.0+dfsg-0ubuntu3) noble; urgency=medium

  * Fix more test cases for Python 3.12.

ansible (9.2.0+dfsg-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - Bump the watchfile to the major 9 series
    - Adds compatibility with Python 3.12 (Closes: #1061781, LP: #2052530)
    - d/control: bump dependency to latest ansible-core
    - Drop patches applied upstream:
      - d/p/0001-fix-libvirt-connection-plugin-warning.patch
      - d/p/0002-fix-libvirt-encoding-errors-on-windows-guests.patch
  * d/tests: Add some more tests to the autopkgtest suite, remove broken ones

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:07:32 +0100