Eric Bavier writes: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:50:37 +0000 > Christopher Baines wrote: > >> Christopher Baines writes: >> >> > Eric Bavier writes: >> > >> > Since all the python packages look to inherit from python-2.7 that's >> > being changed here, perhaps this worked for some of them (I know you >> > mentioned python-minimal in one message), but not all of them, or at >> > least python2? >> >> Just got around to testing this, moving this change to python-3.7, from >> python-2.7 fixes the python-2.7 build for me, but I haven't checked >> how that affects how many cores are actually used when running the tests. > > Strange. I recall testing this patch on both python2 and python. Not > sure what has changed since then. Ok, I've checked out the relevant commit and I can reproduce the issue there. I've also tried to compare the behaviour between the python2 and python3 packages. I think the reason why it might work for python3, and not python2, is that the python2 package seems to include the -l option by default, whereas the python3 package doesn't. Looking at the -l option, it's something about detecting tests that leak memory, which doesn't sound that important, so maybe the thing to do is to patch out the use of -l in the python2 package. What do you think? Thanks, Chris