Test against latest version of Xapian The version of Xapian available in the Ubuntu 14.04 repositories doesn't support python3 (Xapian >=1.3 required). The xapian-backports PPA provides the latest version of Xapian (v1.4.7 at the time of this commit), which does have support for python3.

from roundup.dist.command.build import build_message_files, check_manifest
from distutils.command.install_lib import install_lib as base

class install_lib(base):

    def run(self):
        check_manifest()
        build_message_files(self)
        base.run(self)