[Python-modules-team] Bug#818265: Bug#818187: zeromq3 migrated without any transition being done

[Julian Taylor]

On 15.03.2016 22:48, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
> <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>> On 14/03/16 22:03, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>> Looks good. No problem and thanks for reacting that fast!
>>
>> I scheduled the binNMUs last night and things are going well. The only issue
>> seems to be pyzmq, see #818265.
>  This is known to pyzmq upstream[1] for about three years. It happens
> on Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS and with ZeroMQ 4.0.x as well. While
> timer_create() [4] is in librt, the standard GNU C library, it seems
> pyzmq miss to link with it on the failing architectures. User reports
> says that 'pip install pyzmq --install-option="--zmq=/usr/lib"' forces
> the linking. I don't know how pass it to setup.py (not using pip
> directly) and the path should be multiarch aware for us.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Laszlo/GCS
> [1] https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/issues/391
> [2] https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/issues/468
> [3] https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/issues/658
> [4] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/timer_create.2.html
> 

Are you saying linking against -lrt will fix the tests deadlocking?

I don't quite see the relation between the hanging tests and the linked
issues.
The implicit declaration errors have always been there I think but only
in a configure check so harmless (until now?).