[Python-modules-team] Bug#707316: pyzmq: FTBFS: zmq/utils/buffers.pxd:163:27: default encoding required for conversion from 'char *' to 'str object'

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: pyzmq
Version: 2.2.0-1
Tags: sid jessie
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

pyzmq FTBFS:
| cythoning zmq/core/message.pyx to zmq/core/message.c
|
| Error compiling Cython file:
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| ...
|         PyObject_GetBuffer(ob, &view, flags)
|         bptr = view.buf
|         blen = view.len
|         if format:
|             if view.format != NULL:
|                 bfmt = view.format
|                           ^
| ------------------------------------------------------------
|
| zmq/utils/buffers.pxd:163:27: default encoding required for conversion from 'char *' to 'str object'
| building 'zmq.core.message' extension
| gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O0 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -Izmq/utils -Izmq/core -Izmq/devices -I/usr/include/python2.7_d -c zmq/core/message.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug/zmq/core/message.o -Wno-unused-function -Wno-strict-aliasing
| zmq/core/message.c:1:2: error: #error Do not use this file, it is the result of a failed Cython compilation.
| error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
| [366561 refs]
| dh_auto_build: python-dbg setup.py build --force returned exit code 1
| make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1

cython version was: 0.19+git51-g3078752-1

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Jakub Wilk