#1140981 gpaw: FTBFS: E TypeError: object of type 'type' has no len()

Package:
src:gpaw
Source:
src:gpaw
Submitter:
Santiago Vila
Date:
2026-09-01 10:09:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1140981#5
Date:
2026-06-28 20:51:09 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to build.

Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202606/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:gpaw, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.
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#1140981#10
Date:
2026-09-01 10:08:13 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gpaw, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1140981@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> (supplier of updated gpaw package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:43:45 -0400
Source: gpaw
Architecture: source
Version: 25.7.0-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debichem Team <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>
Closes: 1140981
Changes:
 gpaw (25.7.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Adapt upstream fix to pytest API change (Closes: #1140981)
   * Backport upstream commit to adjust to ASE API change.
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