Fwd: Problem with reprotest-kernel

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
> 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).

My first impression would be a missing build dependency.


> 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
> 


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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