[Python-modules-team] Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

> As far as this bug is concerned, all I can do is tag it for help, since
> I have no clue how to make any sort of progress. If yourself or someone
> else finds a fix for it, I will happily incorporate the corresponding
> patches.

A closer look tells me that this is not really random.

Instead, it always fails on the fast machines I have, and never on the
slower ones. When it fails, we can see this in the build log:

tests/test_uic.py Aborted

so I tried "ulimit -c unlimited" before "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b"
and this was the result:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/python-qtpy/python-qtpy-1.2.1.build.tar.gz

This is the whole build tree, including the "core" file that was generated
by the python interpreter, so in addition to the help tag, I would also:

a) disable tests/test_uic.py until further notice, as we don't know
why it fails.

b) forward the bug upstream so that the author investigates about it.

Thanks.