bug#25177: python-tests: python-oslosphinx fixed. Please evaluate.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:00:21AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
> > @Leo: Can you please start a new evaluation of python-tests?
> 
> I pushed some other fixes recently and built most of `guix package -A
> python`, so I think we're ready for a new evaluation. I suggest we do a
> new evaluation on 'master' after fixing the most critical packages so we
> can include this in 'core-updates'. How does that sound?

I just started a new evaluation of the branch.

> These packages are known to fail still:
> 
> python-dendropy
> python2-fastlmm
> python2-bandit
> python-openid
> python-axolotl
> 
> + Many of the python2 variants of the openstack family libraries (oslo
> etc), which seems to have a unittest2 version mismatch. Should be
> easy to fix, but let's get some substitutes first :-)

I think we should set '#:tests? #f' in these packages and build and
merge the branch.

If these remaining test suite failures indicate that the packages are
broken, they will be equally broken with the test suites disabled. But
overall we will benefit from fixing this bug in python-build-system.

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