Bug#842723: python-pytils: FTBFS (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:python-pytils
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
but it failed:

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[...]
 debian/rules build-indep
dh --with python2,python3 build-indep --buildsystem=pybuild
dh: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
   dh_testdir -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_update_autotools_config -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_configure -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
dh_auto_configure: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
I: pybuild base:184: python2.7 setup.py config 
running config
I: pybuild base:184: python3.5 setup.py config 
running config
   dh_auto_build -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
dh_auto_build: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)

[... snipped ...]

  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/pytils/test/test_dt.py", line 182, in 
testDOTIWDefaultToTimeAcc1
    self.ckDefaultToTime("2day_ago", 1, u"позавчера")
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/pytils/test/test_dt.py", line 95, in ckDefaultToTime
    self.assertEquals(res, estimated)
AssertionError: u'\u0432\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0430' != 
u'\u043f\u043e\u0437\u0430\u0432\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0430'
- \u0432\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0430
+ \u043f\u043e\u0437\u0430\u0432\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0430
? ++++


======================================================================
FAIL: testDOTIWDefaultToTimeAcc2 
(pytils.test.test_dt.DistanceOfTimeInWordsTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/pytils/test/test_dt.py", line 211, in 
testDOTIWDefaultToTimeAcc2
    self.ckDefaultToTime("2day_ago", 2, u"позавчера")
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/pytils/test/test_dt.py", line 95, in ckDefaultToTime
    self.assertEquals(res, estimated)
AssertionError: u'1 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c 23 \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0430 
\u043d\u0430\u0437\u043 [truncated]... != 
u'\u043f\u043e\u0437\u0430\u0432\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0430'
- 1 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c 23 \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0430 
\u043d\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0434
+ \u043f\u043e\u0437\u0430\u0432\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0430


======================================================================
FAIL: testDOTIWDefaultToTimeAcc3 
(pytils.test.test_dt.DistanceOfTimeInWordsTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/pytils/test/test_dt.py", line 243, in 
testDOTIWDefaultToTimeAcc3
    u"2 дня 0 часов 40 минут назад")
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/pytils/test/test_dt.py", line 95, in ckDefaultToTime
    self.assertEquals(res, estimated)
AssertionError: u'1 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c 23 \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0430 40 
\u043c\u0438\u043d\u [truncated]... != u'2 \u0434\u043d\u044f 0 
\u0447\u0430\u0441\u043e\u0432 40 \u043c\u0438\u043d\u0 [truncated]...
- 1 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c 23 \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0430 40 
\u043c\u0438\u043d\u0443\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0434
? ^  - ^^^^    ^
+ 2 \u0434\u043d\u044f 0 \u0447\u0430\u0441\u043e\u0432 40 
\u043c\u0438\u043d\u0443\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0434
? ^   ^^^    ^^


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Ran 71 tests in 0.039s

FAILED (failures=5)
E: pybuild pybuild:276: test: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: 
python2.7 setup.py test 
dh_auto_test: pybuild --test -i python{version} -p 2.7 returned exit code 13
debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
make: *** [build-indep] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
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The relevant part of the build log is included above.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and 
affects,
so that this is still visible in the page for this package.

If you could not reproduce this using sbuild on a single CPU virtual machine 
(as I did),
please do not downgrade or mark as unreproducible, I would then consider giving 
you access
to a virtual machine on which I can reproduce it so that you can as well.
(In such case, please contact me off-list for details).

Thanks.