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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/31/2011 03:47 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The daily builds for subunit started failing recently[1]. The logs
>> show that it's due to a conflict with setup.py. The commit log for the
>> packaging branch[2] says that this has happened before in r101 ("Merge
>> trunk to resolve conflict on setup.py - bad auto-merge?")
>>
>> However, the commit after that says "No setup.py for debian, debhelper
>> gets confuddled." My hypothesis is that whenever we change setup.py in
>> trunk, we'll get a conflict when merging a branch that removes
>> setup.py. This in turn means that the daily build will fail whenever
>> we change setup.py.
>>
>> This situation isn't great, but I don't know what to do about it. Any
>> thoughts?
>>
> Another problem (independent of this one, but also blocking the daily
> builds) is that the subunit testsuite currently fails when used with the
> current testtools.

What's the failure?

jml