[Python-modules-team] Bug#902035: pygame FTBFS on ppc64el, testsuite failure.

[peter green]

Package: pygame
Severity: serious

The most recent attempt to build pygame on ppc64el failed with the following error.


> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_render_args (pygame.tests.font_test.FontTest)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/<<BUILDDIR>>/pygame-1.9.3+dfsg2/.pybuild/cpython2_2.7_pygame/build/pygame/tests/font_test.py", line 179, in test_render_args
>      self.assertEqual(tuple(screen.get_at((0,0)))[:3], (255, 255, 255))
> AssertionError: Tuples differ: (255, 255, 0) != (255, 255, 255)
>
> First differing element 2:
> 0
> 255
>
> - (255, 255, 0)
> ?            ^
>
> + (255, 255, 255)
> ?            ^^^
Interestingly a previous attempt to build it also failed but with a different error, I wonder if font rendering behaviour is not entirely determinitistic but that is just a wild guess.