[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1098613: python-sqt: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: pybuild --test --test-pytest -i python{version} -p "3.12 3.13" returned exit code 13

[Étienne Mollier]

Hi James,

James Addison, on 2025-03-03:
> After using cython, gcc and Python 3.13 to run a minimized subset of the
> failing code, I observed a 'PyBytes_Check' assertion failure, and began
> to suspect some of the typecasting code[1] in the nt_to_aa function that
> accesses bytearray objects as if they are bytes.
> 
> Please find attached a patch that rewrites the _helpers.pyx code to
> construct the relevant objects natively as bytes (immutable), resolving
> the runtime error while hopefully not degrading performance
> significantly.

Thank you for the patch, I can see that it resolves the build
failure and am going to include it in the next upload of
python-sqt.

Have a nice day,  :)
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