[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#902132: Any volunteer to fix build system (Was: python-networkx/2.1-1 appears to break falcon/1.8.8-1 autopkgtest in testing)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:44:41AM -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >falcon needs updating anyways as your test is run during build and your
> >package now FTBFS¹. Do you consider this a bug against falcon or
> >against
> >python-networkx? (In general it will be considered a falcon bug once
> >python-networkx migrates).
> >
> 
> It's a falcon bug, but there's a newer upstream that probably doesn't have this problem. I tried to update the package a while ago, but it requires more time than I had at the moment because the build system changed significantly and part of the code base is now written in nim.

I updated packaging Git to the latest version of falcon.  I can confirm
that the build system does some unusual things and that I do not have
spare time cycles to track these down.  Any volunteer to have a look at
things like this:

...
make[5]: Leaving directory '/build/falcon-2.1.4/DEXTRACTOR'
cd /build/falcon-2.1.4/pypeFLOW; python setup.py install 
running install
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
installation directory:

    [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/test-easy-install-28530.write-test'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/

...

It looks not that complicated - may be somewhere feeding the correct
install dir or something like this.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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