[ubuntu-dev] Bug#911689: ubuntu-dev-tools FTBFS: AssertionError: flake8 found issues:

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: ubuntu-dev-tools
Version: 0.165
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

ubuntu-dev-tools fails to build from source in unstable for multiple
architectures, e.g. amd64:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/unstable/amd64/ubuntu-dev-tools_0.165.rbuild.log.gz

| ======================================================================
| FAIL: test_flake8 (ubuntutools.test.test_flake8.Flake8TestCase)
| Test: Run flake8 on Python source code
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/build/1st/ubuntu-dev-tools-0.165/ubuntutools/test/test_flake8.py", line 44, in test_flake8
|     self.assertFalse(out, "flake8 found issues:\n" + out.decode())
| AssertionError: flake8 found issues:
| ubuntutools/sponsor_patch/bugtask.py:46:11: W605 invalid escape sequence '\('
| ubuntutools/sponsor_patch/bugtask.py:62:50: W605 invalid escape sequence '\('
| ubuntutools/sponsor_patch/bugtask.py:62:58: W605 invalid escape sequence '\)'
| setup.py:14:8: W605 invalid escape sequence '\('
| setup.py:14:14: W605 invalid escape sequence '\)'
| 
| 
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Ran 81 tests in 86.680s
| 
| FAILED (failures=1, skipped=1)
| Test failed: <unittest.runner.TextTestResult run=81 errors=0 failures=1>
| The old maintainer was: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
| Resetting as: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
| error: Test failed: <unittest.runner.TextTestResult run=81 errors=0 failures=1>
| E: pybuild pybuild:338: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python2.7 setup.py test 
| dh_auto_test: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p 2.7 returned exit code 13
| make: *** [debian/rules:6: binary] Error 25
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

Helmut