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

[Marius Bakke]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

All failures from this run should be fixed, and then some. Can you
restart it?

@Hartmut, what was your command for building everything python? :-)

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