Hi, I believe the testsuite fails under UTC+1300 (despite the TZ=UTC):
# -*- compilation -*- 4. symlink-bad-length.at:23: testing symlink-bad-length ... ../../tests/symlink-bad-length.at:46: base64 -d ARCHIVE.base64 > ARCHIVE || exit 77 TZ=UTC cpio -ntv < ARCHIVE 2>stderr cat stderr | grep -v \ -e 'stored filename length is out of range' \ -e 'premature end of file' \ -e 'archive header has reverse byte-order' \ -e 'memory exhausted' \ -e 'skipped [0-9][0-9]* bytes of junk' \ -e '[0-9][0-9]* block' \ >&2 echo >&2 STDERR --- - 2017-02-11 22:20:09.040710554 +1300 +++ /tmp/buildd/cpio-2.12+dfsg/obj/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/4/stdout 2017-02-11 22:20:09.037483227 +1300 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --rw-rw-r-- 1 10029 10031 13 Nov 25 2014 FILE +-rw-rw-r-- 1 10029 10031 13 Nov 26 2014 FILE 4. symlink-bad-length.at:23: 4. symlink-bad-length (symlink-bad-length.at:23): FAILED (symlink-bad-length.at:46) When I set my system timezone to UTC, the test passes. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-