bug#25177: Test failures don't cause some Python packages to fail

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:21:44PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> 
> >>> Yikes, I had hoped to avoid addressing that Nix issue and the humongous
> >>> "fix" for a while longer:
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12552
> >>
> >> This puill-request is huge, but for setuptools, it comes down that they
> >> updated from 18.2 to 19.4.
> >
> > Sounds like we're going down the same road. I've started a branch with
> > the earlier patch and a few other fixes. Is it ok to overwrite the
> > existing 'python-updates' branch on Savannah?
> 
> There are some commits in python-updates that haven't made its way into
> any other branches. I created a new branch 'python-tests' for this fix.
> 
> Please build and fix as much as possible. I'd like to get this merged
> ASAP. @Leo can you start this branch on Hydra?

Several of the commit messages were truncated because of lines that
began with '#:tests?'. The '#' character creates a comment.

I fixed the commit messages with `git rebase`. This means that most of
the commits are now signed by me. I didn't change the commits
themselves.

The evaluation is pending:

https://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/python-tests

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