On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:21:16PM +0530, Abhijith PA wrote: > Hi Roberto > > On Sunday 13 January 2019 06:26 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have been working on the LTS update for symfony and while I completed > > the backports of all of the patches several weeks ago I have not managed > > to get the package to build on jessie. In particular, the build fails > > because of the unit tests. > > > > To determine if any of my changes had anything to do with the unit test > > failures I attempted to build the current version in jessie, > > 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3. That build attempt also failed. > > > > I tried several different approaches to building the package (version > > 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3) using different versions of dependencies to see > > some dependency update along the way triggered new failures. Here are > > the build attempts I made: > > > > - build in an updated jessie cowbuilder with gbp (FAIL) > > - build in a jessie chroot using dpkg-buildpackage with dependencies at > > versions as they existed when version 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3 was > > uploaded on 10 May 2016 (FAIL) > > - build in a jessie chroot using dpkg-buildpackage with dependencies at > > versions as they existed at the initial release of jessie (FAIL) > > - build in a wheezy cowbuilder with gbp (FAIL, some dependencies do not > > exist in wheezy) > > - build in a stretch cowbuilder with gbp (FAIL, some dependencies do not > > exist in stretch) > > > > Since symfony is arch:all, there are no buildd logs to consult. As a > > result, it would be helpful if one or two others out there could attempt > > to build symfony 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3 and report on the result. If the > > build is successful, I would appreciate a copy of the build log. Or, > > perhaps, if you are able/willing to finish the update and perform the > > upload, I can provide my patches. > > My build is also failing with around 20 unit test failures. > > --a >
I was afraid of that. I wonder what the best course of action is. I had earlier communicated with the maintainer about this. That was several weeks ago. At that time he was travelling and had poor Internet access, but managed to run a build...of the version in stretch. I did want to further bother someone who was travelling and without good Internet access, but since it has been a few weeks, I have not been able to sort it out, and there is now confirmation from someone else that the package does not build, it seems time to ping the maintainer again. I have copied him on this message. David, Do you think you could try your build again, but for the 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3 package in jessie? I would very migh like to resolve the build problem, get the package uploaded, and the advisory published. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
