[Python-modules-team] Bug#743118: Bug#743118: urwid: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:56 PM, David Suárez <david.sephirot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> AssertionError: Lists differ: [u'da', u'ta', 'waiting', 'hel... != ['da', 'ta', 'waiting', 'hello...
>
> This is a test that is just being a little too strict. I'm planning to
> remove or fix this test as it doesn't reflect a failure in any real
> programs.
>
> Hopefully I'll have time to release a fix soon. We could also add a
> patch to skip this test in the debian packaging for now.

I didn't come across this test failure when I built and uploaded urwid
on my amd64 laptop, but the mips and sparc buildds are also choking on
the same test case according to the build logs [1]; it's also
preventing the package from migrating to testing. An upload to
fix/skip this test would certainly be appreciated.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=urwid