Moving to newer Python versions
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Moving to newer Python versions
- Branches
- Issues that need revisiting
- Setup caveats
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Known test failures and notes thereon
- BaseLayer: OK (281 tests)
- MemcachedLayer: OK (8 tests)
- LibrarianLayer: OK (9 tests)
- DatabaseLayer: OK (46 tests)
- LaunchpadLayer: OK (24 tests)
- ZopelessLayer: OK (20 tests)
- LaunchpadScriptLayer: OK (85 tests)
- LaunchpadZopelessLayer
- FunctionalLayer: OK (174 tests)
- LaunchpadFunctionalLayer
- AppServerLayer: OK (143 tests)
- DatabaseFunctionalLayer: OK (4467 tests)
- GoogleLaunchpadFunctionalLayer: OK (72 tests)
- PageTestLayer: OK (6335 tests)
- TwistedLayer: OK (235 tests)
- TwistedLaunchpadZopelessLayer: OK (16 tests)
- TwistedAppServerLayer: OK (9 tests)
- ZopelessAppServerLayer: OK
- ZopelessDatabaseLayer: OK (259 tests)
- BugsWindmillLayer: OK (13 tests)
- CodeWindmillLayer: OK (12 tests)
- ForeignBranchPluginLayer: OK (61 tests)
- SSHServerLayer: OK (46 tests)
- RegistryWindmillLayer: OK (17 tests)
- SoyuzWindmillLayer: OK (2 tests)
- TestZopeTestInSubProcessLayer: OK (1 test)
- TranslationsWindmillLayer: OK (7 tests)
- UnitTests: OK
- Shipit
- MailmanLayer: OK
With Lucid fast approaching, efforts to actually migrate Launchpad to Python 2.6 are getting under way.
Relevant tagged bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bugs?field.tag=python-upgrade
Branches
https://code.launchpad.net/~launchpad-committers/launchpad/python2.6 -- collaboration branch created by maxb based on salgado's personal branch
Issues that need revisiting
The failure when setting up the GoogleServiceLayer seems to be a consequence of the server answering with a errno.ECONNABORTED when it's not yet ready, so salgado has just changed the wait_for_service function to treat that error the same way it does for errno.ECONNREFUSED.
The test hang is because of the change done on bug 349316, so salgado has just commented out that addCleanup() line for now, to see if we can get a full test run.
A multitude of modules of modules (sha, md5, sets, ...) are deprecated in Python 2.6, and many tests would fail merely because of unexpected DeprecationWarnings, so we've had to jump through multiple hoops all over the place to suppress these. Ultimately we need a plan for removing these suppressions, because we want to know about deprecation long-term.
It looks like an attainable goal to get all of our dependencies fixed to not raise DeprecationWarnings. The ones needing work are: Twisted, PyCrypto, Ampoule.
Setup caveats
The extension modules in your sourcecode directory will have been built for Python 2.5 and these will break for your 2.6 branch. The simple thing to do is to move your old sourcecode aside and run utilities/rocketfuel-get to get it again with Python 2.6. A more complex but useful thing to do to manage sourcecode directories for multiple python versions is:
cd ~/launchpad/lp-sourcedeps mkdir 2.6 cd 2.6 ln -s ../download-cache ln -s ../eggs mkdir sourcecode cd sourcecode for i in ../../sourcecode/*; do bzr checkout --lightweight "$i"; done
and now point utilities/link-external-sourcecode to ../../lp-sourcedeps/2.6 - if you do that you'll need to be aware that rocketfuel-get won't know about it, and your extra directories will require occasional manual updating.
Known test failures and notes thereon
These results assume you:
- Use the lp:~launchpad-committers/launchpad/python2.6 branch
Have a locally patched sourcecode/pygpgme:
--- src/pygpgme-context.c 2008-10-16 07:44:55 +0000 +++ src/pygpgme-context.c 2010-02-19 01:48:46 +0000 @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ return -1; } + gpgme_check_version(NULL); + if (pygpgme_check_error(gpgme_new(&self->ctx))) return -1;
Unfortunately the fix which has been landed on the sourcecode branch which is supposed to fix this properly also breaks lots of tests.- Have the following not-yet-landed branches merged:
- lp:~wgrant/launchpad/emailauthentication.txt-2.6-fix
Do not have python-tdb installed, which otherwise causes bzr-hg and bzr-git to behave in ways the tests do not expect.
BaseLayer: OK (281 tests)
MemcachedLayer: OK (8 tests)
LibrarianLayer: OK (9 tests)
DatabaseLayer: OK (46 tests)
LaunchpadLayer: OK (24 tests)
ZopelessLayer: OK (20 tests)
LaunchpadScriptLayer: OK (85 tests)
LaunchpadZopelessLayer
test_bug_496988 (lp.bugs.scripts.tests.test_checkwatches.TestCheckwatchesWithSyncableGnomeProducts)
Traceback (most recent call last): _StringException: Text attachment: traceback ------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-sourcedeps/eggs/testtools-0.9.2-py2.6.egg/testtools/runtest.py", line 128, in _run_user return fn(*args) File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-sourcedeps/eggs/testtools-0.9.2-py2.6.egg/testtools/testcase.py", line 368, in _run_test_method testMethod() File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-branches/real-python-2.6/lib/lp/bugs/scripts/tests/test_checkwatches.py", line 109, in test_bug_496988 gnome_bugzilla, [bug_watch_1, bug_watch_2]) File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-branches/real-python-2.6/lib/lp/bugs/scripts/checkwatches/updater.py", line 522, in _getExternalBugTrackersAndWatches remote_bug_ids)) File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-branches/real-python-2.6/lib/lp/bugs/externalbugtracker/bugzilla.py", line 617, in getProductsForRemoteBugs self.initializeRemoteBugDB(bug_ids) File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-branches/real-python-2.6/lib/lp/bugs/externalbugtracker/isolation.py", line 64, in wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-branches/real-python-2.6/lib/lp/bugs/externalbugtracker/bugzilla.py", line 568, in initializeRemoteBugDB 'permissive': True, File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request verbose=self.__verbose File "/home/maxb/launchpad/lp-branches/real-python-2.6/lib/lp/bugs/externalbugtracker/xmlrpc.py", line 98, in request response = self._parse_response(self.opener.open(request), None) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1392, in _parse_response return u.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close raise Fault(**self._stack[0]) Fault: <Fault Client: "Content-Type must be 'text/xml,' 'multipart/*,' or 'application/dime' instead of 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'"> ------------
FunctionalLayer: OK (174 tests)
LaunchpadFunctionalLayer
- valid_absolute_url (canonical.launchpad.validators.url) -- Python 2.6's urlparse disregards the uses_netloc list when parsing urls and treats anything beginning with // as netloc based. This makes maxb and wgrant say WTF!?! The untested valid_absolute_url DB constraint is also affected!
AppServerLayer: OK (143 tests)
DatabaseFunctionalLayer: OK (4467 tests)
GoogleLaunchpadFunctionalLayer: OK (72 tests)
PageTestLayer: OK (6335 tests)
TwistedLayer: OK (235 tests)
TwistedLaunchpadZopelessLayer: OK (16 tests)
TwistedAppServerLayer: OK (9 tests)
ZopelessAppServerLayer: OK
ZopelessDatabaseLayer: OK (259 tests)
BugsWindmillLayer: OK (13 tests)
CodeWindmillLayer: OK (12 tests)
ForeignBranchPluginLayer: OK (61 tests)
SSHServerLayer: OK (46 tests)
RegistryWindmillLayer: OK (17 tests)
SoyuzWindmillLayer: OK (2 tests)
TestZopeTestInSubProcessLayer: OK (1 test)
TranslationsWindmillLayer: OK (7 tests)
UnitTests: OK
Shipit
Might be ok now, I've fixed the errors that were listed here, but I don't have access to shipit --maxb.