[Python-modules-team] Bug#810899: build-dependency on python-billiard should be versioned

[Matthew Vernon]

Source: celery
Version: 3.1.19-2
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

Hi,

I was trying to backport celery to jessie, and the build fails thus:

Searching for billiard>=3.3.0.21,<3.4
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/billiard/
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/billiard/: [Errno 111] Connection refused -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'billiard' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [Errno 111] Connection refused -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or download links found for billiard>=3.3.0.21,<3.4
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('billiard>=3.3.0.21,<3.4')
E: pybuild pybuild:256: test: plugin custom failed with: exit code=1: python2.7 setup.py test

The problem being that jessie has python-billiard 3.3.0.18-2. So the
build-dependency should have versioning information (>=3.3.0.21
<<3.4).

Thanks,

Matthew

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