Bug#798066: Multiarch-renamed python extensions not found during autopkgtest testing

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hi,

على الأربعاء  9 كانون الأول 2015 ‫05:25، كتب Antonio Terceiro:
> autopkgtest does not do anything special wrt dependencies, it will
> install exactly what you told it to in debian/tests/control
[...]
> 
> I am therefore closing this bug.

The problem is not that something is not installed. The problem is that
the multiarch configuration for python is not right in autopkgtest (or
schroot). During the package build, dh-python renames the compiled
extension to contain the multiarch triplet. For some reason, only in
autopkgtest, python is not properly configured to find the extension
after it has been renamed, so autopkgtest runs requiring the compiled
extensions fail.

So should we continue to have hacks like this to get autopkgtest to find
multiarch-renamed extensions?

cd /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysam
gnutype=`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_TARGET_GNU_TYPE`
for so in *.${gnutype}.so ; do sudo ln -sf $so `basename $so
.${gnutype}.so`.so ; done

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/python-pysam.git/tree/debian/tests/run-nose-tests

regards
Afif

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