[Python-modules-team] Bug#734518: pyzmq: FTBFS on i386: pypy build reports ImportError

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: pyzmq
Version: 14.0.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

The i386 build of pyzmq for pypy failed with an ImportError, as detailed at
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pyzmq&arch=i386&ver=14.0.1-1&stamp=1389093279:

  pypy -c 'import zmq'
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "app_main.py", line 72, in run_toplevel
    File "app_main.py", line 566, in run_it
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    File "zmq/__init__.py", line 62, in <module>
      from zmq.backend import *
    File "zmq/backend/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
      _ns = select_backend('zmq.backend.cffi')
    File "zmq/backend/select.py", line 31, in select_backend
      mod = __import__(name, fromlist=public_api)
    File "zmq/backend/cffi/__init__.py", line 46, in <module>
      from zmq.backend.cffi import (constants, error, message, context, socket,
    File "zmq/backend/cffi/constants.py", line 4, in <module>
      from ._cffi import C, c_constant_names
    File "zmq/backend/cffi/_cffi.py", line 180, in <module>
      "Please check that you have zeromq headers and libraries." % e)
  ImportError: PyZMQ CFFI backend couldn't find zeromq: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'str' and 'list'
  Please check that you have zeromq headers and libraries.

Could you please take a look?

Thanks!