Bug#848403: diffoscope: FTBFS randomly (Fatal Python error: deallocating None)

[Chris Lamb]

Ximin Luo wrote:

> I still haven't managed to reproduce this myself but I'll just note
> for the record we have seen this on jenkins before

My guess is that one of the third-party Python extension modules that
we import does not correctly reference count Py_None. Someone did a
good writeup here:

  http://stackoverflow.com/a/15288194

Now, we just need to narrow down which one… and then fix it.  >.>


Regards,

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