Re: dh-python does not stop if there is error during the byte-compiling

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

Frederik wrote:
> Hello, in one of my package (pymca), there is a syntax error like this.
>
> byte-compiling 
> /builds/science-team/pymca/debian/output/pymca-5.5.2+dfsg/debian/python-pymca5/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyMca5/Object3D/Object3DPlugins/ChimeraStack.py 
> to ChimeraStack.pyc
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyMca5/Object3D/Object3DPlugins/ChimeraStack.py", 
> line 72
>     with h5py.File(filename, mode='r') as f
>                                           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> (missing ':' at the end of the line) but this does not stop the build 
> process.
>
> Is it normal ?



The error got through both dh_auto_install and pybuild --install.  I'm 
pretty sure dh_auto_install will halt on error (or more correctly 
debian/rules will halt when dh_auto_install returns an error).  I would 
have thought pybuild would also catch the error and pass it on to 
dh_auto_install.  Could it be that upstream setup.py returns 0 when the 
SyntaxError happens or something similar, i.e. ignores the error? The 
problem must be either there or in pybuild.

Drew