On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > I also tried here, both on a chroot and on a VM, and also got that: > > FAILURES! > Tests: 11817, Assertions: 22122, Failures: 20, Skipped: 1348. > > Looking at the log, it seems most failures are somehow date/time related. So I > thought they could either be due to new tzdata updates, or due to the time > shift > from when that package was updated (e.g. a certificate used in the test suite > could be set to expire in 2017). That was easy to test, so I set my system > time > to 2015-01-14 and re-run the build on a chroot: > > FAILURES! > Tests: 11817, Assertions: 22122, Failures: 4, Skipped: 1348. > Wow! I cannot believe I overlooked that. I know we have encountered similar time-based failures with expired certificates (nss was the one that immediately came to mind). Thanks for this observation. I will invesitgate further and report back.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
