[Python-Dev] Status of various Python branches

[Tim Peters]

> Speaking of maintenance branches, the test suite currently fails on
> the release22-maint branch.  test_descr encounters a fatal Python
> error.  The tail of the output is:
>
> Testing deepcopy of recursive objects...
> Testing uninitialized module objects...
> Testing pickling of classes with __slots__ ...
> Testing __doc__ descriptor...
> Testing for __imul__ problems...
> Testing that copy.*copy() correctly uses __setstate__...
> Testing resurrection of new-style instance...
> Fatal Python error: GC object already in linked list

Did you do an update and a fresh build?  That's exactly how the current
branch test_gc would fail if you're using the released 2.2.1 Python, or
anything after that older than about yesterday.