[Python-modules-team] Bug#421609: pyusb_0.3.5-3(m68k/unstable/vault13): FTBFS on m68k (others?)

[Stephen R Marenka]

Package: pyusb
Version: 0.3.5-3
Severity: important


pyusb fails to build from source on m68k (and perhaps on spacs and mips). The 
culprit file is pyusb-0.3.5.egg-info, which contains the following.

| Metadata-Version: 1.0
| Name: pyusb
| Version: 0.3.5
| Summary: USB access extension module
| Home-page: http://pyusb.berlios.de
| Author: Wander Lairson Costa
| Author-email: wander.lairson at gmail.com
| License: GPL
| Description:
|         PyUSB provides easy USB access to python.
|         The module contains classes and methods to
|         support the most USB operations.
| 
| Platform: UNKNOWN

Here are selected excerpts from the buildd log.


| Automatic build of pyusb_0.3.5-3 on vault13 by sbuild/m68k 98
| Build started at 20070430-1438
| ******************************************************************************

 [...]

| ** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
| Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), cdbs (>= 0.4.41), dpatch, libusb-dev, python-all-dev, python-support (>= 0.3)

 [...]

| Checking correctness of source dependencies...
| Toolchain package versions: libc6-dev_2.5-3 linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-7 gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21 g++-4.1_4.1.1-21 binutils_2.17-3 libstdc++6-4.1-dev_4.1.1-21 libstdc++6_4.1.1-21

 [...]

| dh_python -ppython-pyusb   
| dh_python: Doing nothing since dh_pycompat exists; dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral should do the work. You can remove dh_python from your rules file.
| # Remove empty and unused directory.
| rmdir debian/python-pyusb/usr/share/python-support/python-pyusb
| rmdir: debian/python-pyusb/usr/share/python-support/python-pyusb: Directory not empty
| make: *** [binary-post-install/python-pyusb] Error 1
| ******************************************************************************
| Build finished at 20070430-1515
| FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]


A full buildd log is available at 
<http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=pyusb&ver=0.3.5-3&arch=m68k>

Other buildd logs may be available at 
<http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=pyusb>

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
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