[Piuparts-devel] Bug#827411: Bug#827411: piuparts: FTBFS on jessie: 'wheezy' != 'squeeze'

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:59:39AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> control: severity -1 important
> thanks
> 
> Hi Dominic, hi distro-info maintainers,
> 
> thanks for your bug report, Dominic!
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:20:18PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Source: piuparts
> > Version: 0.62
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: FTBFS
> > 
> > This package fails to build on a clean jessie sbuild chroot:
> > 
> > ======================================================================
> > FAIL: testConfStdDistroNames (test_config.ConfStdDistroTests)
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/tests/test_config.py", line 20, in testConfStdDistroNames
> >     self.assertEqual(self.oldstable, 'squeeze')
> > AssertionError: 'wheezy' != 'squeeze'
> 
> looking at tests/test_config.py I see nothing wrong, wheezy is
> oldstablde there and squeeze is only referenced there for history.
> 
> So I assume it's actually not piuparts which "is wrong" but distro-info
> in that jessie chroot, which states that squeeze is oldstable, which it
> isn't.
> 
> I'm not sure how to deal with this bug report :-( Maybe this is actually
> a bug in distro-info in jessie and this bug should be reassigned there?
> (+"affects piuparts")

That sounds quite appropriate. JFTR, python-distro-info (0.14).

> I've downgraded the severity for now as the package builds fine in sid.

I think the correct action is to tag this bug jessie and or update
the 'fixed' version metadata, rather than downgrade - but I expect
that can all get fixed up once/if the bug is reassigned :)

Cheers,
Dominic.