Bug#818501: FTBFS: Tests fail with segmentation fault

[Christopher Baines]

Source: pytables
Version: 3.2.2-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

Building the package in pbuilder fails.

This is the same failure that has been occurring since the 22nd of February in
the Debian CI system [1].

1:
https://ci.debian.net/data/packages/unstable/amd64/p/pytables/20160317_052922.autopkgtest.log.gz

I am also getting a segfault when trying to use python-pytables to read a hdf5
file, but I can't tell if this is related.

Build log failure:

test00 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateArrayTestCase)
Checking one action. ... ok
test01 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateArrayTestCase)
Checking two actions. ... ok
test02 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateArrayTestCase)
Checking three actions. ... ok
test03 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateArrayTestCase)
Checking three actions in different depth levels. ... ok
test00 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateGroupTestCase)
Checking one action. ... ok
test01 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateGroupTestCase)
Checking two actions. ... ok
test02 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateGroupTestCase)
Checking three actions. ... ok
test03 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.CreateGroupTestCase)
Checking three actions in different depth levels. ... ok
test00 (tables.tests.test_do_undo.RenameNodeTestCase)
Checking rename_node (over Groups without children) ... Segmentation fault
debian/rules:58: recipe for target 'override_dh_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_install] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/pytables-3.2.2'
debian/rules:26: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
I: copying local configuration
E: Failed autobuilding of package



-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)