[Python-modules-team] Bug#884220: pylint-common FTBFS: ImportError: cannot import name make_tests

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: severity -1 important

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 08:42:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Source: pylint-common
> Version: 0.2.5-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Some recent change in unstable makes pylint-common FTBFS:
> 
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/pylint-common.html
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/pylint-common.html
> 
> ...
> 
>    debian/rules override_dh_auto_test
> make[1]: Entering directory '/build/1st/pylint-common-0.2.5'
> PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 PYTHONPATH=. python2 test/test_func.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test/test_func.py", line 4, in <module>
>     from pylint.testutils import make_tests, LintTestUsingModule, LintTestUsingFile, cb_test_gen, linter
> ImportError: cannot import name make_tests
> debian/rules:10: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1

This is caused by the new Pylint that made some stuff private.  The
test need to be rewritten using a different way to load those classes.

For now I'm just disabling the tests, so this issue can be downgraded.

> There is a patch in Ubuntu that might fix it (untested).

It should, but for now I'm not taking it.
FTR, this is the patch:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/333615422/pylint-common_0.2.5-1_0.2.5-1ubuntu1.diff.gz

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