[pacman-dev] python-2.7 and pacman test-suite

[Rémy Oudompheng]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Just a heads up that the test-suite does not enjoy python-2.7...
>
> Total            = 200
> Pass             =  82 ( 41.00%)
> Expected Fail    =   6 (  3.00%)
> Unexpected Pass  =   2 (  1.00%)
> Fail             = 110 ( 55.00%)
>
> Although, we do get two bug fixes for free!
>
> Allan

If I'm diagnosing correctly, with python 2.6, the generated package
files contain a ".PKGINFO" file, while python2.7 creates packages
containing a file "./.PKGINFO" and libalpm complains saying the
package is malformed.

-- 
Rémy