Fwd: Problem with reprotest-kernel

[Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras]

Thank you for your comment

On 5/14/20 8:47 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with reprotest on a python package I am building
>> and was recently made aware of this mailinglist.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what's going on, how I can further debug my issue or
>> ideally how I should fix the issue of a failing reprotest-kernel build?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: Problem with reprotest-kernel
>> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:44:21 +0200
>> From: Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras <devrtz at fortysixandtwo.eu>
>> To: debian-python at lists.debian.org
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need some help with a failing reprotest-kernel (other reprotest works)
>> build (both on CI and locally). My package python3-pyzbar provides
>> bindings for libzbar0.
>> The failure occurs while running the build-time tests for
>> build-experiment-1 [1].
>>
>> Effectively the ImportError is raised here [2]:
>> ctypes.util.find_library('zbar') returns None in build-experiment-1
>> (testbed still works).
> 
> My first impression would be a missing build dependency.
>

Maybe I am missing something obvious, but why would the build (and the
failing test) succeed in the testbed if a dependency were missing?

> 
>> So far I found out that uname -a prints 4.9.0-12-amd64 for testbed and
>> 2.6.69-12-amd64 for build-experiment-1. On a local build I have seen
>> some "FATAL: kernel too old" messages[3], but they don't show up in the
>> logs[4], so I am wondering if it also happens on the CI but also does
>> not show in the logs.
>>
>> A quick ddg search yielded [5] . Can anyone give me any insights?
>> Because I feel disabling the kernel variation (without fully
>> understanding the issue) is not the winning move here :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/devrtz/pyzbar/-/jobs/738921#L1116
>> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/devrtz/pyzbar/-/blob/master/pyzbar/zbar_library.py#L63
>> [3] https://fortysixandtwo.eu/img/reprotest_kernel_too_old.png
>> [4] https://fortysixandtwo.eu/img/reprotest_too_old_not_in_log.png
>> [5] http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Bug-928921-reprotest-kernel-too-old-SIGSEGV-td4512112.html
>>
> 
> 
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers
> 

Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras