[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thank you for investigating. -- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo resolution: fixed -> wont fix stage: -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez added the comment: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25908 Looks like Allan will be taking care of this problem (eventually). I think this bug can be closed. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez added the comment: I emailed the Arch Linux people to get more information on this particular issue. If they decide that the compress program will stay as is I will write attempt to write a patch to skip the test based on the output of compress's --version flag. --

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo added the comment: Okay. It’s not a very beautiful check, but it will do. Do you want to make a patch to disable compress if it’s a fake compress program? -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez added the comment: I've already got a patch ready for #11678. As for checking the compress command, perhaps we can accomplish it by comparing version information of the program: $ compress --version compress 1.4 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C)

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for opening #11678 for the feature request. To fix this in all versions, we would need a way to find that the current OS is Arch, and/or that the compress program is faulty. Do you know how to do that? Maybe with lsb_release? -- components: +D