Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Geert Stappers Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Problem with reprotest-kernel, my build attempt fails Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 18:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon May 18 16:25:42 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/18311 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20200518162527.zxc4wghwbxovh6a6@gpm.stappers.nl Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 65 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 18:25:27 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20200518162527.zxc4wghwbxovh6a6@gpm.stappers.nl> X-Original-References: <9c231f3b-7179-5ea2-0471-b4ae17696ced@fortysixandtwo.eu> <20200514184730.52epzo42pfvaqhf5@gpm.stappers.nl> <17a3c3a9-e0bc-3e2e-2098-2ec53f849415@fortysixandtwo.eu> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:12608 On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 05:22:49PM +0200, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote: > On 5/14/20 9:11 PM, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote: > > On 5/14/20 8:47 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > >> 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 > >>> To: debian-python@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. > >>> > >>> Effectively the ImportError is raised here: > >>> ctypes.util.find_library('zbar') returns None in build-experiment-1 > >>> (testbed still works). > >> > >> My first impression would be a missing build dependency. > >> > > > > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but why would the build (and the > > failing test) succeed in the testbed if a dependency were missing? > > > > After some further investigation, I have figured out a solution. > Changing the build dependency to the -dev package (from libzbar0 to > libzbar-dev) has fixed the failing reprotest-kernel job. I tried this > out after reading that ctypes.util.find_library is usually used to > lookup build-time dependencies rather than run-time dependencies. > > Local builds and other reprotest variations work fine without the -dev > package. Can someone share some insight into why reprotest-kernel needs > the -dev package? > > Thanks in advance > > Can someone share some insight into why reprotest-kernel needs the -dev package? } Can someone share some insight into why building reprotest-kernel needs the -dev package? -dev is a naming convention Those packages contain the development files. (stuff that the compiler needs) Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse