Bug#779324: van.pydeb causing several FTBFS bugs - bump up to RC

[Brian Sutherland]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 08:00:02AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> severity 779324 serious
> thanks
> 
> This bug is causing FTBFS in several source packages.  

As the original author of van.pydeb I would not be sad to see it be
removed from Debian. The latest dh_python is an almost complete
replacement and most packages could/should be converted to it.

Unfortunately, my day job and 2 little tadpoles running around mean that
I definitely won't get around to it for a long time to come.

> For example, from my
> pbuilder build log for zope.i18n:
> 
> ...
> running install_egg_info
> Copying src/zope.i18n.egg-info to /tmp/buildd/zope.i18n-3.7.4/debian/python-zope.i18n/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zope.i18n-3.7.4.egg-info
> Installing /tmp/buildd/zope.i18n-3.7.4/debian/python-zope.i18n/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zope.i18n-3.7.4-nspkg.pth
> running install_scripts
>    dh_pydeb
> pydeb: Working on source package zope.i18n
> pydeb: Working on python distribution zope.i18n
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/van-pydeb", line 9, in <module>
>     load_entry_point('van.pydeb==1.3.3', 'console_scripts', 'van-pydeb')()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 552, in load_entry_point
>     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2672, in load_entry_point
>     return ep.load()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2345, in load
>     return self.resolve()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2351, in resolve
>     module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/van/pydeb/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
>     from pkg_resources import component_re # Is this a public interface?
> ImportError: cannot import name component_re
> pydeb: Working on binary package
> ERROR: Expected binary package in debian/control but did not find it.
> debian/rules:6: recipe for target 'binary' failed
> make: *** [binary] Error 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
> -- 
> Daniel Schepler
> 
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Brian Sutherland