[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#860636: kineticstools: FTBFS on i386: build-dependency not installable: python-pbcore (>= 1.2.8)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: kineticstools
Version: 0.6.1+20161222-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170418-i386 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS in stretch on i386

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in stretch (in a stretch chroot, not a
sid chroot), your package failed to build on i386.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Install package build dependencies                                           |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> 
> Setup apt archive
> -----------------
> 
> Merged Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-python, python-all, python-setuptools, python-docutils, python-pbcore (>= 1.2.8), python-pbcommand (>= 0.3.22), python-numpy (>= 1.6.0), python-h5py (>= 1.3.0), python-scipy (>= 0.9.0), python-nose
> Filtered Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-python, python-all, python-setuptools, python-docutils, python-pbcore (>= 1.2.8), python-pbcommand (>= 0.3.22), python-numpy (>= 1.6.0), python-h5py (>= 1.3.0), python-scipy (>= 0.9.0), python-nose
> dpkg-deb: building package 'sbuild-build-depends-kineticstools-dummy' in '/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-KQPUMf/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-kineticstools-dummy.deb'.
> dpkg-scanpackages: warning: Packages in archive but missing from override file:
> dpkg-scanpackages: warning:   sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy sbuild-build-depends-kineticstools-dummy
> dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 2 entries to output Packages file.
> Ign:1 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-KQPUMf/apt_archive ./ InRelease
> Get:2 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-KQPUMf/apt_archive ./ Release [963 B]
> Ign:3 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-KQPUMf/apt_archive ./ Release.gpg
> Get:4 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-KQPUMf/apt_archive ./ Sources [571 B]
> Get:5 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-KQPUMf/apt_archive ./ Packages [651 B]
> Fetched 2185 B in 0s (188 kB/s)
> Reading package lists...
> W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
> Reading package lists...
> 
> Install kineticstools build dependencies (apt-based resolver)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Installing build dependencies
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  sbuild-build-depends-kineticstools-dummy : Depends: python-pbcore (>= 1.2.8) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> apt-get failed.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/04/18/kineticstools_0.6.1+20161222-1_testing-i386.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.