Re: [pcp] qa/1111 failing pretty much every place it is run

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/07/16 13:19, Nathan Scott wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > [...]
> > No deps for deb.  And check-vm was only checking for python(2) version,
> > but we've moved the deb build to using python3 when available and
> > python3-requests was not installed.  Fixed this and passes on one host
> > (so far).
> Hmm - debian/control.master has
>
> Package: pcp-export-pcp2influxdb
> Depends: ${python:Depends}, [...], python3-requests | python-requests
>
> which I'd have thought would pull it in for QA too?
Well we're probably just another victim of the simple minds of the 
Python pixies that apparently thought compatibility between versions was 
something that did not matter.
The prereq will be satisfied by python-requests when python3-requests is 
*not* installed, which won't help if configure has decided to use 
python3 ... this probably needs configure-driven magic to customize the 
debian/control file to make the Depends: line python3-requests if PCP is 
using python3 else python-requests if PCP is using python(2), rather 
than the alternation construct at the moment.