Hi Lincoln, On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 06:14:34PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote: > I need a little help to reproduce Gregor's failed tests, given that I'm a > complete newbie wrt the Debian packaging system. I have cloned gbrowse > 2.56+dfsg-1 from the Debian Med repository, but I don't know what command > line to use to attempt the build. What is the next step? I'm guessing it is > some form of dpkg-buildpackage, but the number of options is pretty > overwhelming!
If you have installed the devscripts package you can try debuild which is a wrapper around dpkg-buildpackage and in principle needs no options to reproduce the issue. Debuild will inform you about missing Build-Dependencies you need to install - simply use apt-get install what is listed if anything is missing. When doing so I get ... Test Summary Report ------------------- t/00.compile.t (Wstat: 3840 Tests: 90 Failed: 15) Failed tests: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 17-18, 29, 31, 33, 35 41, 45, 47 Non-zero exit status: 15 t/02.rearchitecture.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 90 tests but ran 0. t/03.render.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 150 tests but ran 0. t/04.remoteserver.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 43 tests but ran 0. t/05.deferredrendering.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 19 tests but ran 0. t/06.featuresearch.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 26 tests but ran 0. t/07.karyotype.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 3 tests but ran 0. Files=10, Tests=103, 5 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr 0.01 sys + 4.19 cusr 0.30 csys = 4.55 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 7/10 test programs. 15/103 subtests failed. dh_auto_test: perl Build test --verbose 1 TEST_FILES=t/02.rearchitecture.t t/05.deferredrendering.t t/00.compile.t t/01.yeast.t t/07.balancer.t t/08.calign.t returned exit code 255 Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de