What ICU is this? I can't tell which version from here. Your analysis sounds reasonable, may have to ignore the tests (there's a logKnownIssue mechanism) - put the following before the failing test case:
if (logKnownIssue("https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icu/+bug/2016021", "tzdata issue")) { return; } -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to icu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2016021 Title: icu FTBFS on lunar Status in icu package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: During the last test rebuild, it was noticed that icu failed to build from source, with the following failures in the test suite: ------------- | *** FAILING TEST SUMMARY FOR: intltest TestAliasedNames TestCanonicalID TimeZoneTest format | *** END FAILING TEST SUMMARY FOR: intltest The issue is related to the recent tzdata updates: not only the usual batch of changes made to reflect the current state of the world, but also changes made to have a better data set for pre-1970 dates. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icu/+bug/2016021/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp