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regarding fakeroot FTBFS: fails tar test
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: fakeroot
Version: 1.37.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
fakeroot fails to build from source in unstable. A build ends as
follows:
| /usr/bin/make check-TESTS
| make[4]: Entering directory
'/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2/obj-tcp/test'
| make[5]: Entering directory
'/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2/obj-tcp/test'
| PASS: t.chmod_dev
| PASS: t.chmod_symlink
| PASS: t.chown
| PASS: t.cp-a
| PASS: t.echoarg
| PASS: t.falsereturn
| PASS: t.mknod
| PASS: t.no_ld_preload
| PASS: t.no_ld_preload_link
| PASS: t.option
| PASS: t.perlstat
| FAIL: t.tar
| PASS: t.touchinstall
| PASS: t.truereturn
| PASS: t.xattr
| ============================================================================
| Testsuite summary for fakeroot 1.37.2
| ============================================================================
| # TOTAL: 15
| # PASS: 14
| # SKIP: 0
| # XFAIL: 0
| # FAIL: 1
| # XPASS: 0
| # ERROR: 0
| ============================================================================
| See test/test-suite.log for debugging.
| Some test(s) failed. Please report this to [email protected],
| together with the test-suite.log file (gzipped) and your system
| information. Thanks.
| ============================================================================
| make[5]: *** [Makefile:565: test-suite.log] Error 1
| make[5]: Leaving directory
'/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2/obj-tcp/test'
| make[4]: *** [Makefile:700: check-TESTS] Error 2
| make[4]: Leaving directory
'/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2/obj-tcp/test'
| make[3]: *** [Makefile:871: check-am] Error 2
| make[3]: Leaving directory
'/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2/obj-tcp/test'
| make[2]: *** [Makefile:704: check-recursive] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2/obj-tcp'
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:53: override_dh_auto_test] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/fakeroot-1.37.2'
| make: *** [debian/rules:14: binary] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit
status 2
It seems to also fail on reprodudcible builds infrastructure, but I am
presently unable to retrieve a build log.
Helmut
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.1.1-1
I am not certain, but I believe that the failure observed was
caused by a race condition which is now fixed.
--- End Message ---
