Re: Help with setuptools-related build break

[Martin Kelly <martin@martingkelly.com>]

On 1/26/19 4:56 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Saturday, January 26, 2019 04:05:50 PM Martin Kelly wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm attempting to release a new version of my package python-gmpy2 [1]
> > and am hitting a bug that I can't figure out how to resolve.
> > Specifically, in the latest version under pbuilder, python-setuptools is
> > missing. When I add python-setuptools and python3-setuptools it to the
> > build dependencies, I get the following error:
> >
> > Err http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64
> > python-pkg-resources all 39.2.0-1
> >     404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.52.204 80]
> > Err http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64
> > python-setuptools all 39.2.0-1
> >     404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.52.204 80]
> > Err http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64
> > python3-setuptools all 39.2.0-1
> >     404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.52.204 80]
> > E: Failed to fetch
> > http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-setuptools/python
> > -pkg-resources_39.2.0-1_all.deb: 404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.52.204 80]
> > E: Unable to fetch some packages; try '-o APT::Get::Fix-Missing=true' to
> > continue with missing packages
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.
> >
> > Indeed, this package version does not exist in the repo, so I'm not sure
> > why apt is attempting to install it.
> >
> > Does anyone have some guidance and/or debugging suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Martin
> >
> > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-gmpy2
>
> Those are obsolete versions.  You need to run pbuilder update.
>
> Scott K

Thanks, this is what I thought as well, and so I kept running pbuilder 
update to no avail. I realized that I was using cowbuilder, so the 
update was happening on a different chroot. After starting from a clean 
cowbuilder, the problem is gone.