Re: New python build system merged

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> Am 29.11.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Good.  When you fix it (and other failures, if any), we can start a new
>> evaluation or merge directly in master (the sooner the better!).
>
> Done.
>
> I'm very glad the new python build system is now in master. Thanks to
> everybody who helped finishing this!

Woow, that was fast.  I was expecting a signal from you before we
trigger the merge button.

> However, Hartmut, I think that Build 1637640 is not even done building all the packages yet (1853 packages are pending; and some "python-" packages are in the queue), so it's anyone's guess which packages are affected.
>
> As for the Python-requiring packages (which do or don't have "python" in the name), the failing ones I can spot are:
> - borg (can't import borg) 
> - calibre ("list index out of range" in setup.py)
> - kicad (because of python2-wxpython failure "option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized")
> - python2-wxpython ("option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized")
> - python-sympy (testing fails because some tests that were supposed to fail passed instead)
> - python-ipython (Can't find "docs/build/texinfo/ipython.info")
> - python2-beautifulsoup4 (Tries to use "python3" in convert-py3k - why? After all it's supposed to use Python 2)
>
> There are others.

Hartmut, can you look into these now?  I see Leo already fixed Borg and
hopefully the remaining issues are relatively easy to address.

Thanks!

Ludo’.