[Bug 1098317] Re: multi-arched python makes large number of python packages FTBFS

[Logan Rosen]

Please feel free to mark it as Invalid, but I am making this bug also
affect the virtualbox package, as it now FTBFS in raring due to not
being able to find Python (which is making it terribly difficult for me
to fix an unrelated bug). There is some discussion of this in Bug
1016165, and I believe that the transition to multiarch Python caused
this FTBFS.

** Also affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  multi-arched python makes large number of python packages FTBFS

Status in “python-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “virtualbox” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “python-defaults” source package in Raring:
  Confirmed
Status in “virtualbox” source package in Raring:
  New

Bug description:
  A rather large number of Python packages are no longer building
  successfully in raring but they built fine before multiarch.

  The error logs will have a message similar to:

  /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:8:22: fatal error: pyconfig.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.

  This was discussed in a thread at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives
  /ubuntu-devel/2013-January/036291.html where some sort of
  compatibility header was proposed.

  Personally, I think it would be an extraordinary effort to
  individually patch all of the affected packages and I'm not sure
  whether these patches would be accepted into upstreams.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: python 2.7.3-10ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
  Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jan 10 15:22:22 2013
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: python-defaults
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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