Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/pull/149
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Running ALL PYTHON tests.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/build/reproducible-path/libsmbios-2.4.3/src/pyunit/testAll.py",
> > line 39, in <module>
> > retval = TestLib.runTests( tests )
> > File "/build/reproducible-path/libsmbios-2.4.3/src/pyunit/TestLib.py",
> > line 29, in runTests
> > temp = unittest.makeSuite( i, testToRun )
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > File "/usr/lib/python3.13/unittest/__init__.py", line 80, in __getattr__
> > raise AttributeError(f"module {__name__!r} has no attribute {name!r}")
> > AttributeError: module 'unittest' has no attribute 'makeSuite'
> > FAIL src/pyunit/runtests.sh (exit status: 1)
The fix is trivial, and in fact someone has already made a PR for it
upstream (linked above).
smbios is, sadly, seemingly abandonware, with the last commit being 5
years ago. My impression is that the focus has shifted to implementing a
lot of this functionality in Linux itself, with a lot of these bits
being now available through sysfs. However to my knowledge userspace
tooling to leverage it, like e.g. performing the system tag -> express
service code base 36 translation, or map token names to their
descriptions (like smbios-token-ctl through its embedded CSV file)
doesn't exist.
So it'd be nice if we could at least fix this trivial bug, and get it
back in testing in time for trixie and hope for someone to come up with
a replacement during the forky timeframe.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Faidon
