[Bug 1097783] [NEW] Regression: some python library functions return wrong types

[Robie Basak]

Public bug reported:

In raring, some library functions are returning longs instead of ints.
This is different from behaviour in quantal. This is causing an FTBFS in
genshi due to doctest failures.

Building from upstream source exhibits correct behaviour, including from
upstream orig tarballs and upstream 2.7 hg tip. But if I build using the
packaging, I get the problem (including sid and experimental). So I
presume the problem is in Debian's packaging. But the problem does not
occur in a sid chroot, so is this Ubuntu toolchain related?

Test case:

import re
re.compile('.').match('.', 0).end()

Expected result: an int
Actual result: a long

** Affects: genshi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: python2.7 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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

** Changed in: genshi (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: genshi (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Regression: some python library functions return wrong types

Status in “genshi” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “python2.7” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In raring, some library functions are returning longs instead of ints.
  This is different from behaviour in quantal. This is causing an FTBFS
  in genshi due to doctest failures.

  Building from upstream source exhibits correct behaviour, including
  from upstream orig tarballs and upstream 2.7 hg tip. But if I build
  using the packaging, I get the problem (including sid and
  experimental). So I presume the problem is in Debian's packaging. But
  the problem does not occur in a sid chroot, so is this Ubuntu
  toolchain related?

  Test case:

  import re
  re.compile('.').match('.', 0).end()

  Expected result: an int
  Actual result: a long

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