reportlab is broken on current master

[kalbasit]

Issue description

nixos-rebuild test is failing with the current master (at 1750e10)

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Ran 268 tests in 23.185s

FAILED (errors=3, skipped=2)
builder for '/nix/store/awkp8lszcyxfn1p85h3pgrih5kcxc8xw-python2.7-reportlab-3.5.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/14k1jl9g0x0r5jsml09rgsl3zpjpmdkk-hplip-3.18.5.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/94wng2vs22zp69xk21akh97fdkf7kdx9-cups-progs.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/xi8miqnybw4kxnnaxylhndgssg48z4h8-cups-files.conf.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/pl07szsc5df6cgjqdsi3bril19sd40zp-cups-progs.drv': 2 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/zafwj7qk78crhc2cb7lv3q6phq61rgxw-unit-script.drv': 2 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/n3jk0kkdfnkslb5d3mhlhj5fnys69m72-unit-cups.service.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/6q4zzdjafxl1rf4cxnp3srk8fq6hb1xb-system-units.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/y0y1d7wcvd8bwwz874rn4z0sipvd65b3-etc.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/75is1vqma9d109i6hw6qcjj23kksn0qb-nixos-system-hades-18.09.git.e46e7f44c22.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
error: build of '/nix/store/75is1vqma9d109i6hw6qcjj23kksn0qb-nixos-system-hades-18.09.git.e46e7f44c22.drv' failed

The full log can be found here

When I reverted both 7babc81 and c53d608 it worked.

Steps to reproduce

$ nixos-rebuild test

Technical details

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the
results.

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.17.8, NixOS, 18.09.git.b64d3bb058a (Jellyfish)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.0.4
• channels(root): "nixos"
• channels(kalbasit): "nixos-18.09pre145679.dae9cf6106d"
• nixpkgs: /code/personal/base/src/github.com/kalbasit/system/external/nixpkgs

cc @FRidh

[FRidh]

Seems like the tests need fixing. I suggest you open a PR if you like to have this working.

[kalbasit]

@FRidh does nix-build the package work for you? I'm just wondering how it got to master if it's broken.

[eadwu]

I just deleted the tests that weren't working since CUPS still seemed to work fine even though they failed. nix-build also fails with the same errors as nixos-rebuild for me.

  postPatch = ''
    rm tests/test_graphics_barcode.py
    rm tests/test_graphics_render.py
    rm tests/test_lib_utils.py
    rm tests/test_platypus_breaking.py
    rm tests/test_platypus_general.py
  '';

[kalbasit]

the tests seem to be working upstream. I don't use it myself (probably a dependency of one of the packages I have installed), but it's best to figure out what's wrong and fix it than to remove the tests.

[eadwu]

Looks like the problem of being unable to download the required files (fopen) for testing?

[kalbasit]

@FRidh can we revert back to version 3.4.0 until we can fix this?

[FRidh]

The update will be applied again on the next batch, which is beginning of September, at which point we stabilize the package set for 18.09 (assuming the release is end of September). Therefore, I would rather not and would actually like to see some activity from those that are interested in this package.