Mysterious intermittent test failure of 2.3b4 in bzr-beta-ppa - Help!

[Andrew Bennetts]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> I've just built 2.3b4 in the bzr-beta-ppa.
> 
> Of the 13 builds, 2 of them failed bzr selftest: lucid/i386 and jaunty/lpia.
[...]
> per_transport.TransportTests.test_readv_with_adjust_for_latency(HttpTransport_urllib,HTTPSServer_urllib)
> 
> with traceback tail
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 224, in recv
>     return socket.recv(self, buflen, flags)
> TypeError: 'member_descriptor' object is not callable

Ah, this is <https://bugs.launchpad.net/python/+bug/637821>, fixed in Python 2.7
and Maverick's python2.6.

I think Vincent landed a workaround for unfixed Python in lp:bzr r5561.

-Andrew.