| From: | gregoa [...] cpan.org |
| Subject: | libcgi-validop-perl: FTBFS on May 1st (?) |
We have the following bug reported to the Debian package of
CGI-ValidOp (https://bugs.debian.org/861952):
It doesn't seem to be a bug in the packaging, so you may want to take
a look. Thanks!
(Please also check the next message in the bug tracker)
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Package: src:libcgi-validop-perl
Version: 0.56-2
Severity: important
Hello Gregor et al.
I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
but it failed:
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[...]
t/16check_date.t ..........
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Test Summary Report
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t/16check_date.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 607 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 506
Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=24, Tests=3133, 3 wallclock secs ( 0.39 usr 0.13 sys + 2.26 cusr 0.36 csys = 3.14 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/24 test programs. 1/3133 subtests failed.
Makefile:844: recipe for target 'test_dynamic' failed
make[1]: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_test: make -j1 test TEST_VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2
debian/rules:7: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
make: *** [build-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
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The build was made on 2017-05-01 and the error says
expected: '2017-04-31'
which does not exist, as April has only 30 days.
This suggests a date-related bug.
I have not tried to reproduce it by building it again on May 1st.
Maybe this could be done by using libfaketime, but I think a better
strategy would be to look at the code and the error message and try to
guess how it may happen.
Thanks.
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Thanks for considering,
gregor herrmann,
Debian Perl Group