Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> I noticed while building the package added by ng0's patch (below) that
>> the test suite fails, but the check phase succeeds:
>>
>> [...]
>> ======================================================================
>> ERROR: test_clone_with_credentials (test.test_repository.CloneRepositoryTest)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/tmp/guix-build-python-pygit2-0.24.2.drv-0/pygit2-0.24.2/test/test_repository.py", line 544, in test_clone_with_credentials
>>     self._temp_dir, callbacks=pygit2.RemoteCallbacks(credentials=pygit2.UserPass("libgit2", "libgit2")))
>>   File "/tmp/guix-build-python-pygit2-0.24.2.drv-0/pygit2-0.24.2/pygit2/__init__.py", line 255, in clone_repository
>>     check_error(err)
>>   File "/tmp/guix-build-python-pygit2-0.24.2.drv-0/pygit2-0.24.2/pygit2/errors.py", line 64, in check_error
>>     raise GitError(message)
>> _pygit2.GitError: curl error: Couldn't resolve host 'bitbucket.org'
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ran 262 tests in 5.771s
>>
>> FAILED (errors=3)
>> phase `check' succeeded after 8.9 seconds
>> [...]
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> It looks like the 'check' phase ends with 'delete-file-recursively',
> which has an unspecified return value, and that eventual failures from
> 'call-setuppy' are lost.

The good news: the attached patch makes 'check' work as expected. The
bad news is that we have some breakages.

'python-py' fails with:

TypeError: py.test.__dict__ is not a dictionary

Which seems similar to

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12565#issuecomment-174165144

I tried adding a newer setuptools as input, to no avail. Needs more
investigation.