Fwd: Problem with reprotest-kernel

[Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras]

Hello,

I have a problem with reprotest on a python package I am building
and was recently made aware of this mailinglist.

Can anyone tell me what's going on, how I can further debug my issue or
ideally how I should fix the issue of a failing reprotest-kernel build?

Thanks in advance


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Problem with reprotest-kernel
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:44:21 +0200
From: Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras <devrtz at fortysixandtwo.eu>
To: debian-python at lists.debian.org

Hello,

I need some help with a failing reprotest-kernel (other reprotest works)
build (both on CI and locally). My package python3-pyzbar provides
bindings for libzbar0.
The failure occurs while running the build-time tests for
build-experiment-1 [1].

Effectively the ImportError is raised here [2]:
ctypes.util.find_library('zbar') returns None in build-experiment-1
(testbed still works).

So far I found out that uname -a prints 4.9.0-12-amd64 for testbed and
2.6.69-12-amd64 for build-experiment-1. On a local build I have seen
some "FATAL: kernel too old" messages[3], but they don't show up in the
logs[4], so I am wondering if it also happens on the CI but also does
not show in the logs.

A quick ddg search yielded [5] . Can anyone give me any insights?
Because I feel disabling the kernel variation (without fully
understanding the issue) is not the winning move here :)

Thanks in advance

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/devrtz/pyzbar/-/jobs/738921#L1116
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/devrtz/pyzbar/-/blob/master/pyzbar/zbar_library.py#L63
[3] https://fortysixandtwo.eu/img/reprotest_kernel_too_old.png
[4] https://fortysixandtwo.eu/img/reprotest_too_old_not_in_log.png
[5]
http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Bug-928921-reprotest-kernel-too-old-SIGSEGV-td4512112.html

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Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras