Bug#819842: pyliblo: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (test suite fails)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:pyliblo
Version: 0.10.0-1
User: sanvila at debian.org
Usertags: binary-indep
Severity: important

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

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 debian/rules build-indep
dh build-indep --with python2,python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_testdir -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_update_autotools_config -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_configure -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
I: pybuild base:184: python2.7 setup.py config 
running config
I: pybuild base:184: python3.5 setup.py config 
running config
   dh_auto_build -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
I: pybuild base:184: /usr/bin/python setup.py build 
running build

[... snipped ...]

testRandomPort (test.test_liblo.ServerCreationTestCase) ... ok
testSendReceive (test.test_liblo.ServerTCPTestCase) ... ERROR
testBundleCallbacksFire (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testMethodAfterFree (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testPort (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testRecvImmediate (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testRecvTimeout (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendBlob (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendBundle (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendInt (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendInvalid (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendLong (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendMessage (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendOthers (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendTimestamped (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendVarious (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendingLongAsIntOverflows (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testURL (test.test_liblo.ServerTestCase) ... ok
testSendAndReceive (test.test_liblo.ServerThreadTestCase) ... ok

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ERROR: testSendReceive (test.test_liblo.ServerTCPTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/test_liblo.py", line 225, in testSendReceive
    liblo.send(self.server.url, '/foo', 123)
  File "src/liblo.pyx", line 186, in liblo.send (src/liblo.c:3321)
    _send(target, None, args)
  File "src/liblo.pyx", line 160, in liblo._send (src/liblo.c:3180)
    raise IOError("sending failed: %s" %
IOError: sending failed: Connection timed out

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Ran 27 tests in 256.358s

FAILED (errors=1)
E: pybuild pybuild:274: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python2.7 setup.py test 
dh_auto_test: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p 2.7 --dir . returned exit code 13
debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
make: *** [build-indep] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
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Sorry not to have a fix, as I am reporting many bugs similar to
this one. The common hints are:

* If the only architecture-independent packages are dummy transitional
ones and they were released with jessie, the easy fix is to drop them
now.

* When using "dh", it is allowed to use (independently)
optional targets override_dh_foo-arch and override_dh_foo-indep
(for several values of "foo").


Once that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B" work
properly, the package would be suitable to be uploaded in source-only
form if you wish.

Thanks.