Bug#699589: lsb ftbfs in wheezy, testsuite problems.

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: reassign -1 src:lsb
Control: merge 673586 -1
Control: retitle 673586 FTBFS if Python 3.2 is installed in chroot

Le samedi, 2 février 2013 08.12:49, peter green a écrit :
> Attempting to build lsb in a wheezy amd64 chroot I get
> 
> PYTHONPATH=. python3.2 test/test_initdutils.py -vv
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test/test_initdutils.py", line 4, in <module>
>     import initdutils as iu
>   File "/lsb-4.1+Debian8/initdutils.py", line 18
>     raise ValueError, 'need a file or string'
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Hi peter,

as highlighted in 673586, this happens because your chroot has python3.2 
installed which is not listed in the Build-Depends (unclean chroot). That's 
clearly a bug, but definitely not serious to my eyes.

Cheers,

OdyX