[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#1151452: Bug#1151452: mat2: FTBFS with dh-python 7.20261019

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola Georg!

El 2026-10-20 a las 19:36 +0000, Georg Faerber escribió:
>Thanks for your report --

You are welcome.

>On 26-10-20 21:05:10, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
>> While preparing the Python 3.15 migration we realized that some Python
>> packages were shipping broken metadata directories, which leads to
>> errors when trying to import these directories with code running on
>> Python 3.15.
>>
>> To avoid shipping any additional broken directories, dh-python
>> 7.20261019 now throws an error at build-time.
>>
>> Unfortunately, mat2 is one of the affected packages and fails to build
>> with the latest dh-python [1].
>>
>> Most of these errors can be fixed by being more strict with the files
>> considered for installation. I'll try to submit a patch for this ASAP.
>>
>> [1]: https://debusine.debian.net/debian/r-python-python3.15/artifact/5118877/
>
>I had a quick look at the above link: to me it seems that the build
>fails not due to broken metadata directories, but rather due to
>
>  FAIL: test_all_parametred (tests.test_libmat2.TestCleaning.test_all_parametred)
>  AssertionError: False is not true : got a different value (720000) than excepted [...]
>
>which looks similar to
>
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993209
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021732
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1148580
>  ...
>
>The autopkgtest via ci.d.n is failing since quite some time as well.

>Does this make sense?

Yes, this package already had an FTBFS due to a change in ffmpeg 9. I
prepared another patch for that, and I cherry-picked a patch from
upstream (attaching them). With these patches the package builds again.

Happy hacking,
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