[Python-modules-team] Bug#755339: foolscap: FTBFS: Tests failures

[David Suárez]

Source: foolscap
Version: 0.6.4-2
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140718 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):
>     test_format ...                                                        [OK]
> 
> ===============================================================================
> [SKIPPED]
> new-style classes still broken
> 
> foolscap.test.test_banana.ThereAndBackAgain.test_boundMethod_newstyle
> foolscap.test.test_banana.ThereAndBackAgain.test_classMethod_newstyle
> foolscap.test.test_banana.ThereAndBackAgain.test_class_newstyle
> foolscap.test.test_banana.ThereAndBackAgain.test_instance_newstyle
> ===============================================================================
> [ERROR]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/trial/runner.py", line 498, in loadPackage
>     module = modinfo.load()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/modules.py", line 383, in load
>     return self.pathEntry.pythonPath.moduleLoader(self.name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 303, in namedAny
>     topLevelPackage = _importAndCheckStack(trialname)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/reflect.py", line 242, in _importAndCheckStack
>     return __import__(importName)
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/foolscap/test/test_promise.py", line 5, in <module>
>     from foolscap.promise import makePromise, send, sendOnly, when, UsageError
>   File "/«PKGBUILDDIR»/foolscap/promise.py", line 8, in <module>
>     id = util.unsignedID
> exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'unsignedID'
> 
> foolscap.test.test_promise
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 452 tests in 89.288s
> 
> FAILED (skips=4, errors=1, successes=447)
> make[2]: *** [test] Error 1
> dh_auto_test: make -j1 test returned exit code 2

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/07/18/foolscap_0.6.4-2_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.