Bug#562904: adonthell ftbfs on armel
package: adonthell
version: 0.3.5-4
severity: serious
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During the run up to the lenny release python 2.5 was made the default
and this made adonthell FTBFS on arm(el) with "Fatal Python error:
exceptions bootstrapping error."
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486654 ). While doing
flyby bugsquashing I took a look at this bug but failed to make any
headway. I asked on debian-python but the only response I received was a
suggestion to ask upstream. Since I was just doing flyby bugsquashing,
had failed to produce a reduced testcase (since I really had no idea
what was triggering the bug) and I don't know python I didn't make any
contact with upstream (for either python or adonthell).
Since a release was looming and noone had made no progress on finding a
root cause (afaict none of the maintainers even responsed to the
bugreport) I proposed a patch that special cased arm(el) and explicityly
chose python2.4 on theese architectures. after some minor revisions this
patch was uploaded by Philipp Kern as a NMU.
Due to the planned removal of python2.4 Moritz Muehlenhoff reverted this
special casing recently and the package now FTBFS again on armel but the
soloution used last time is no longer possible. So as Moritz indicated
in his changelog entry either the issue with newer python versions needs
to be found and fixed (something I'm not capable of doing) or the armel
adonthell package needs to be dropped.
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