Bug#955620: cloud-init - debian/rules clean fails from git repo

[Bastian Blank <bastian.blank@credativ.de>]

Package: cloud-init
Version: 20.1-X
Severity: important

Currently running debian/rules clean from git repository fails:

|  % ./debian/rules clean
| py3versions: no X-Python3-Version in control file, using supported versions
| dh clean --with python3,systemd --buildsystem pybuild
|    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
| I: pybuild base:217: python3.7 setup.py clean
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "setup.py", line 293, in <module>
|     version=get_version(),
|   File "setup.py", line 85, in get_version
|     (ver, _e) = tiny_p(cmd)
|   File "setup.py", line 50, in tiny_p
|     (cmd, ret, out, err))
| RuntimeError: Failed running ['/usr/bin/python3.7', 'tools/read-version'] [rc=1] (, git describe version (0.7.9-145-g12042ee9) differs from cloudinit.version (20.1)
| Please get the latest upstream tags.
| As an example, this can be done with the following:
| $ git remote add upstream https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init
| $ git fetch upstream --tags
| )
| E: pybuild pybuild:352: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.7 setup.py clean
| dh_auto_clean: error: pybuild --clean --test-nose -i python{version} -p "3.7 3.8" returned exit code 13
| make: *** [debian/rules:7: clean] Error 13

Bastian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cloud-init depends on:
ii  fdisk               2.34-0.1
ii  gdisk               1.0.5-1
pn  ifupdown            <none>
ii  locales             2.30-2
ii  lsb-base            11.1.0
ii  lsb-release         11.1.0
ii  net-tools           1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1
ii  procps              2:3.3.16-4
ii  python3             3.8.2-2
pn  python3-configobj   <none>
ii  python3-jinja2      2.10.1-2
pn  python3-jsonpatch   <none>
pn  python3-jsonschema  <none>
pn  python3-oauthlib    <none>
ii  python3-requests    2.22.0-2
ii  python3-six         1.14.0-2
ii  python3-yaml        5.3.1-1
ii  util-linux          2.34-0.1

Versions of packages cloud-init recommends:
pn  cloud-guest-utils  <none>
pn  eatmydata          <none>
ii  sudo               1.8.31p1-1

Versions of packages cloud-init suggests:
pn  btrfs-progs  <none>
ii  e2fsprogs    1.45.6-1
pn  xfsprogs     <none>