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Ian
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:33:32PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mark Hindley writes ("Bug#1052942: insserv: FTBFS: insserv: Could not read
> script nolsbheader: No such file or directory"):
> > Thanks for this. However, I am currently unable to repoduce this
> > failure in my customary pbuilder setup. And it doesn't appear at
> > reproducible builds either[1]
>
> I just tried this myself with my usual sbuild setup and it succeeded
> there too[1].
Thanks for your confirmation.
> Lucas, I think something from your rebuild environment
> (a chroot of some kind I presume) must be triggering this failure. Is
> there some way we can reproduce it more precisely (eg, a buildinfo
> file?)
Yes, I agree a buildinfo file might give a hint.
> I looked at the build log
> http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/09/25/insserv_1.24.0-1_unstable.log
> and compared it to the one from my sbuild, using diff. There are a
> lot of changes to the "furniture" but also there are noise changes to
> the output of the insserv test suite, including ordring changes of
> passing tests. This seemed surprising to me.
>
> Mark, is the insserv test suite supposed to produce deterministic
> output ?
I have never had the need to look at the testsuite since I started looking after
the package. A quick look now doesn't immediately reveal something that would
obviously change the order of the tests.
I tried again locally with make -j8 and still could not reproduce any failure.
Mark
