Bug#627191: ecasound: FTBFS: Python tests failing

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Package: ecasound
Version: 2.8.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

Automatic builds of ecasound are failing on several architectures
(i386 among them, per
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ecasound&arch=i386&ver=2.8.0-1&stamp=1305671476
) because the Python module somehow can't determine the new ecasound
executable's version:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test1_stresstest.py", line 44, in <module>
    e = ECA_CONTROL_INTERFACE(debuglevel)
  File ".../ecasound-2.8.0/pyecasound/ecacontrol.py", line 36, in __init__
    I.initialize()
  File ".../ecasound-2.8.0/pyecasound/ecacontrol.py", line 154, in initialize
    if float(version[s+10:s+13])>=2.2:
ValueError: empty string for float()

Could you please take a look?

Thanks!