Bug#1061843: siconos fails its autopkg tests with Python 3.12

Mon Jan 29 20:58:06 GMT 2024

Package: src:siconos
Version: 4.4.0+dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: sid trixie ftbfs
User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
Usertags: python3.12

With python3-defaults from experimental, the package fails its autopkg 
tests:

[...]
2449s autopkgtest [14:52:26]: test mechanics-tools: [-----------------------
2449s test_cube_scene_info_filter_compare
2449s Wrote cube_scene.hdf5
2450s No module named siconos.fclib.
2454s Traceback (most recent call last):
2454s   File "/usr/bin/siconos_run", line 43, in <module>
2454s     from siconos.io.mechanics_run import MechanicsHdf5Runner
2454s   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/siconos/io/mechanics_run.py", line 43, 
in <module>
2454s     from siconos.io.FrictionContactTrace import 
GlobalFrictionContactTrace as GFCTrace
2454s   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/siconos/io/FrictionContactTrace.py", 
line 41, in <module>
2454s     import imp
2454s ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'
2454s [1;31mASSERT:[0munknown failure encountered running a test
2454s
2454s Ran [1;36m1[0m test.
2454s
2454s [1;31mFAILED[0m ([1;31mfailures=1[0m)
2454s autopkgtest [14:52:31]: test mechanics-tools: -----------------------]
2455s autopkgtest [14:52:32]: test mechanics-tools:  - - - - - - - - - - 
results - - - - - - - - - -
2455s mechanics-tools      FAIL non-zero exit status 2