uscan / uupdate and the attached patch to the debian directory fixes this
for me.
diff -Nru xcffib-0.4.2/debian/changelog xcffib-0.5.1/debian/changelog
--- xcffib-0.4.2/debian/changelog 2016-09-19 22:59:15.000000000 +1200
+++ xcffib-0.5.1/debian/changelog 2017-07-13 15:37:48.000000000 +1200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+xcffib (0.5.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * New upstream release. (Closes: #866543, #839314)
+ * d/patches/fix-big-endian-machines.patch: drop, included upstream.
+ * d/control: Add Build-Depends on libghc-semigroups-dev, libghc-either-dev.
+
+ -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hud...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jul 2017
15:14:31 +1200
+
xcffib (0.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Removed unnecessary depends on python{3,}-cffi. (Closes: #833163)
diff -Nru xcffib-0.4.2/debian/control xcffib-0.5.1/debian/control
--- xcffib-0.4.2/debian/control 2016-09-19 22:59:15.000000000 +1200
+++ xcffib-0.5.1/debian/control 2017-07-13 15:28:16.000000000 +1200
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
Source: xcffib
Section: python
Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Iain R. Learmonth <i...@debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Iain R. Learmonth <i...@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
, dh-python
, pkg-config
@@ -16,8 +17,10 @@
, libghc-optparse-applicative-dev (>= 0.5)
, libghc-filemanip-dev
, libghc-mtl-dev (>= 2.1)
+ , libghc-semigroups-dev
, libghc-test-framework-hunit-dev
, libghc-attoparsec-dev
+ , libghc-either-dev
, python-setuptools
, python3-setuptools
, python-autopep8
diff -Nru xcffib-0.4.2/debian/patches/fix-big-endian-machines.patch
xcffib-0.5.1/debian/patches/fix-big-endian-machines.patch
--- xcffib-0.4.2/debian/patches/fix-big-endian-machines.patch 2016-09-19
22:59:15.000000000 +1200
+++ xcffib-0.5.1/debian/patches/fix-big-endian-machines.patch 1970-01-01
12:00:00.000000000 +1200
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-Description: handle endian-ness in test cases
-Author: Tycho Andersen <ty...@tycho.ws>
-Reviewed-By: Iain R. Learmonth <i...@debian.org>
-Bug: https://github.com/tych0/xcffib/issues/77
-Last-Update: 2016-09-19
-
---- xcffib-0.4.2.orig/module/__init__.py
-+++ xcffib-0.4.2/module/__init__.py
-@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ class List(Protobj):
-
- def to_atoms(self):
- """ A helper for converting a List of chars to an array of atoms """
-- return struct.unpack("=" + "I" * (len(self) // 4), b''.join(self))
-+ return struct.unpack("I" * (len(self) // 4), b''.join(self))
-
- def buf(self):
- return b''.join(self.list)
---- xcffib-0.4.2.orig/test/test_python_code.py
-+++ xcffib-0.4.2/test/test_python_code.py
-@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
- import xcffib
- import xcffib.xproto
- import struct
-+import sys
- from xcffib.xproto import EventMask
-
- from .testing import XcffibTest
-@@ -44,9 +45,16 @@ class TestPythonCode(XcffibTest):
- for actual, expected in zip(range(20), cm.data8):
- assert actual == expected, actual
-
-- assert cm.data32[0] == 0x03020100
-- assert cm.data32[1] == 0x07060504
-- assert cm.data32[2] == 0x0b0a0908
-+ if sys.byteorder == "little":
-+ assert cm.data32[0] == 0x03020100
-+ assert cm.data32[1] == 0x07060504
-+ assert cm.data32[2] == 0x0b0a0908
-+ elif sys.byteorder == "big":
-+ assert cm.data32[0] == 0x00010203
-+ assert cm.data32[1] == 0x04050607
-+ assert cm.data32[2] == 0x08090a0b
-+ else:
-+ raise Exception("unknown byte order?")
-
- def test_offset_map(self):
- om = xcffib.OffsetMap({0: "Event0,0"})
diff -Nru xcffib-0.4.2/debian/patches/series xcffib-0.5.1/debian/patches/series
--- xcffib-0.4.2/debian/patches/series 2016-09-19 22:59:15.000000000 +1200
+++ xcffib-0.5.1/debian/patches/series 2017-07-13 15:16:09.000000000 +1200
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-fix-big-endian-machines.patch
