FTBFS in latest archive rebuild test

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-autotest/2007-December/000043.html
Automatic build of pychecker_0.8.17-5 on terranova by sbuild/i386 1.170.5

Running test17...
8d7
< test_input/test17.py:16: Cannot return a value from __init__
  test17 FAILED

Running test22...
31,32d30
< test_input/test22.py:79: ... % 1 may be constant
< test_input/test22.py:81: ... % 1 may be constant
  test22 FAILED

Running test34...
6a7,10
> locale.py:203: Local variable (digits) shadows global defined on line 4 in file test_input/test34.py
> locale.py:204: Local variable (digits) shadows global defined on line 4 in file test_input/test34.py
> locale.py:208: Local variable (digits) shadows global defined on line 4 in file test_input/test34.py
>
  test34 FAILED

Running test48...
25d24
< test_input/test48.py:57: Statement appears to have no effect
  test48 FAILED

Running test53...
5d4
< test_input/test53.py:5: Operator (~~) doesn't exist, statement has no effect
  test53 FAILED

Running test71...
5d4
< test_input/test71.py:8: Code appears to be unreachable
7d5
< test_input/test71.py:20: Code appears to be unreachable
  test71 FAILED

Running test77...
5c5
< File "test_input/test77.py", line 8
---
> File "test_input/test77.py", line 8, in <module>()
7c7
< MyError: **error formatting exception value**
---
> MyError:
  test77 FAILED

Running test87...
15,16c15,16
< test_input/test87.py:16: Comparisons with True are not necessary and may not work as expected
< test_input/test87.py:16: Comparisons with true are not necessary and may not work as expected
---
> test_input/test87.py:17: Comparisons with True are not necessary and may not work as expected
> test_input/test87.py:18: Comparisons with true are not necessary and may not work as expected
  test87 FAILED

Running test88...
1a2,3
> test_input/test88.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the gopherlib module is deprecated
> import gopherlib
  test88 FAILED

91/100 tests passed (9 failures).
Failed test(s): test17 test22 test34 test48 test53 test71 test77 test87 test88
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

i386 only?

new ->confirmed

Caroline: No, arch:all which is build on the i386 buildd.

I've looked into this and found out that even the last Debian revision passes all tests only with pyhton2.4 and not python2.5.

This is a blocker for spe too.