On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 01:13:17PM +0300, Muriithi Frederick Muriuki wrote:
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-httpretty): New variable.

> +    (arguments
> +     `(;; One of ipdb's dependency keeps failing with a response
> +       ;; of 410, "Gone"
> +       ;; The dependency seems to have a name "texlive-texmf-2016"
> +       ;; and seems to be one of texlive's dependencies
> +       ;; As such, the tests for this will fail due to the missing
> +       ;; dependency ("python-ipdb" ,python-ipdb)
> +       #:tests? #f))

When the substituter fails, it should suggest that you re-try the
command with '--fallback'.

Does it matter that httpretty would be missing this dependency and
failing its test suite?