[Debian-med-packaging] BioPython: Some Python modules not found in tests at package build time

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 03:05:42PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> as I wrote in my last mail I have started anyother try to finalise
> BioPython which is prepared at
>  
>    Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/python-biopython/trunk/
> 
> I hope the final problem with the tests is that I get output like
> 
> test_GraphicsBitmaps ... skipping. Install PIL (Python Imaging Library) if you want to create bitmaps with Bio.Graphics.
> 
> despite the required Python modules are installed.  Interestingly enough
> if I manually run the test suite I get a different warning message for
> test_GraphicsBitmaps:
> 
> test_GraphicsBitmaps ... Warn: Can't find .pfb for face 'Times-Roman'
> skipping. Check the fonts needed by ReportLab if you want bitmaps from Bio.Graphics
> Can't setFont(Times-Roman) missing the T1 files?
> Originally <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: makeT1Font() argument 2 must be string, not None
> 
> 
> My conclusion is that when not running the build (here it is not relevant
> whether I'm doing debuild or pdebuild!) PIL is not found but in case I
> run the test suite manually afterwards it is found an some other problem
> occures (hints how to get the .pfb files are for sure welcome as well).

Well, this was rather me forgetting a python-imaging dependency - I
(wrongly) assumed that python-pil would be sufficient.  So any idea
how to get ".pfb for face 'Times-Roman'" found by reportlab

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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