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emacs-elpy fails to install

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From: Brandon Morales <brstmorales <at> outlook.com>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: emacs-elpy fails to install
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:48:50 +0000

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Hi,

A couple of days ago I tried upgrading the installed packages on my guix system, however the emacs-elpy fails to install. Attached you can find the log.

$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 091131af64fd4e4e925fff829fa19097cfcdfcc5
Copyright (C) 2024 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

$ uname -a
Linux xwing 6.11.5-gnu #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Let me know if you need more information.

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From: Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov <at> colimite.fr>
To: 74048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: emacs-elpy fails to install
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:27:52 +0100

Hi Brandon,

Just chiming in to say that I have the same issue with emacs-elpy since
at least 2 weeks, with a very similar error log ending in an
ert-runner-related exception in the check phase.

I've sent an E-mail to help-guix with more information concerning
my case.  Let's see if this can help somebody help us help debug the
issue :-)

-
Sergiu

Message #11 received at 74048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luis Felipe <sirgazil <at> zoho.com>
To: 74048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: emacs-elpy fails to install
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:15:45 +0000

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This problem seems to be related to the test suite of Elpy upstream, 
which has been failing for months, consecutively, since 2024 (see 
https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy/actions?query=workflow%3ATests). 
Apparently, the project is unmaintained (see 
https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy):

> IMPORTANT NOTE: Looking for a maintainer
>
> I find myself (@galaunay, current maintainer), unable to maintain 
Elpy at the moment, and probably for a while. If you are interested in 
getting involved in Elpy, please contact me by mail, the project 
definitely needs you !
>
> In the meantime, I will keep an eye on the PRs to integrate any fix 
and/or new features proposed, but I will definitely not be able to treat 
the issues in a satisfying manner.

The last successful emacs-elpy build for x86_64-linux systems in Guix is 
from September 3, 2024 (see 
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/search?query=spec%3Amaster+system%3Ax86_64-linux+emacs-elpy). 
After that, all builds seem to be failing for the same reason: «command 
"ert-runner" failed with status 255».

Maybe emacs-elpy should be removed from Guix?


§ WORKAROUNDS

I wasn't affected until recently because I was using an older revision 
of Guix where emacs-elpy worked normally. But today I installed 
emacs-elpy as follows

  guix package -i emacs-elpy --without-tests=emacs-elpy

So far, it seems to be working fine. If it turns out to fail at some 
point, I think I'll use the guix time-machine.

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