[Python-modules-team] Bug#725567: python-cliff: FTBFS: pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (pyparsing 2.0.1 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('pyparsing==1.5.7'))

[David Suárez]

Source: python-cliff
Version: 1.4-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20131006 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> set -e -x; \
> 	PYTHONPATH=/«PKGBUILDDIR»/build/lib.* python setup.py nosetests
> + PYTHONPATH=/«PKGBUILDDIR»/build/lib.* python setup.py nosetests
> running nosetests
> running egg_info
> writing requirements to cliff.egg-info/requires.txt
> writing cliff.egg-info/PKG-INFO
> writing namespace_packages to cliff.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt
> writing top-level names to cliff.egg-info/top_level.txt
> writing dependency_links to cliff.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
> writing entry points to cliff.egg-info/entry_points.txt
> reading manifest file 'cliff.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
> reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
> warning: no files found matching '*.html' under directory 'docs'
> warning: no files found matching '*.css' under directory 'docs'
> warning: no files found matching '*.js' under directory 'docs'
> warning: no files found matching '*.png' under directory 'docs'
> writing manifest file 'cliff.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
> running build_ext
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 188, in <module>
>     zip_safe=False,
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/commands.py", line 140, in run
>     self.distribution.install_requires)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 245, in fetch_build_eggs
>     parse_requirements(requires), installer=self.fetch_build_egg
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 600, in resolve
>     raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info here
> pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (pyparsing 2.0.1 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('pyparsing==1.5.7'))
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/10/06/python-cliff_1.4-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.