[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

Irit Katriel added the comment: The skip has been added: @unittest.skipUnless(find_executable('compress'), 'The compress program is required') def test_compress_deprecated(self): https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/23831a7a90956e38b7d70304bb6afe30d37936de/Lib/distutils

[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

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Éric Araujo added the comment: Ronald, can you tell what would be the check to put in skipIf? -- versions: +Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___

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Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'd also skip the test, this is not a bug in Python but a broken compress executable. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Just skip the test, IMO. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

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Tarek Ziadé added the comment: So do you know if this is specific to all sharutils versions ? I could read the version and raise a specific error in that case. *or* just not fix this bug and fix the test so it's permissive in this very particular case (by looking at the compression version)

[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: $ compress --version compress - sharutils 4.2c And yes, this is jucky behavior. Most systems shouldn't be affected by this because sharutils isn't used a lot these days. -- ___ Python tracker

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Tarek Ziadé added the comment: ouch, what a bad practice... The compress feature is going away anyway. Could you tell me what "compress --version" says ? Maybe we can use that output to discard this fake command when looking for the compress program. -- ___

[issue8730] Spurious test failure in distutils

New submission from Ronald Oussoren : Output of test_distutils on a older SuSE Linux system: FAILED (errors=1, skipped=5) Traceback (most recent call last): File "../Lib/test/test_distutils.py", line 18, in test_main() File "../Lib/test/test_distutils.py", line 13, in test_main test