Bugzilla Bug 199725

the pygobject testsuite fails if pygtk isn't installed:

make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygobject-2.14.0/work/pygobject-2.14.0/tests'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./runtests.py", line 42, in <module>
    suite.addTest(loader.loadTestsFromName(name))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/unittest.py", line 533, in loadTestsFromName
    module = __import__('.'.join(parts_copy))
  File "../tests/test_subtype.py", line 9, in <module>
    import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk
make[2]: *** [check-local] Error 1


unfortunately pygtk RDEPENDs on pygobject, creating a circular dependency. 
because of this, it might be best to add RESTRICT=test to the pygobject ebuild.

Hmm... That's a very very hard one.

Gnome team: maybe patch out any tests needing pygtk?  Or block tests all
together?  In general, a new system should probably not be installed with
FEATURES=test, but that's not a real solution.

I had this issue while upgrading to python-2.5 and running
/usr/sbin/python-updater. pygobject bailed out with same error. Solved this by
manually running:

# FEATURES="-test" emerge -1 pygobject && emerge -1 pygtk && emerge -1
pygobject

What about making pygobject DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/pygtk )"? This would
introduce a circular dependency, which needs to be resolved the way described
above.

BR,
Dustin

*** Bug 228497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 231412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 217349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

If no one wants to fix this, I'll be adding RESTRICT=test to pygobject.

Why not add the DEPEND mentioned in comment #2?  Plus a message on how to
resolve the circular dependency.

Because a circular dependency happens when the package manager is building a
dependency graph, before the list of packages to build is displayed, and before
any particular package can display a message.

*** Bug 233362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

For the record, the latest versions pygtk and pygobject should be fixed as the
codegen tool needed for the tests has been moved to pygobject. So basically,
the circular dep is gone.

Hopefully, we should get those versions into portage along with Gnome 2.24.

Keeping this bug open until it's in portage.

Thanks

I was sick of this test suite failing in my chroot for arch testing so I added
RESTRICT="test" to pygobject-2.14.2 as a simple workaround. Hope no one screams
too loudly ;)

(In reply to comment #10)
> For the record, the latest versions pygtk and pygobject should be fixed as the
> codegen tool needed for the tests has been moved to pygobject. So basically,
> the circular dep is gone.
> 

I'm not sure what version "the latest" is, but I still see this with pygobject
2.15.4. Is this fixed with a newer version, or should it have been fixed in
this version?