[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#834331: Bug#834331: ibus: FTBFS in testing (tests last forever)

[Aron Xu]

Hi,

I'm not able to reproduce the problem in a pbuilder environment, build
log attached.

Cheers,
Aron

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> wrote:
> Package: ibus
> Version: 1.5.11-1
> Severity: serious
>
> Dear maintainer:
>
> I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and it
> failed in this way:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> make  check-TESTS
> make[6]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/tests'
> make[7]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/tests'
> make[7]: *** Deleting file 'ibus-bus.log'
> make[7]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[7]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[7]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[6]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[6]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[5]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[5]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[4]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[4]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[3]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> Build killed with signal TERM after 60 minutes of inactivity
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, the fact that I did "dpkg-buildpackage -A" is not relevant in
> this case, because the same failure happens on the reproducible builds
> autobuilders:
>
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/testing/amd64/ibus_1.5.11-1.rbuild.log
>
> In this case the autobuilder was more patient than mine and waited for
> 18 hours before giving up. You can see this at the end:
>
> pbuilder was killed by timeout after 18h.
> total duration: 18h 0m 34s.
>
>
> I have no idea why it fails, but by looking at debian/rules, I see
> that the results of the tests are ignored completely, because of the
> initial "-":
>
> override_dh_auto_test:
>         -dh_auto_test
>
>
> Additionally, the tests do not run verbosely, which does not help
> the autobuilder to detect activity.
>
>
> So, I suggest that you do one of these things:
>
>
> A. Disable the tests completely by having an empty
> override_dh_auto_test target that does nothing:
>
> override_dh_auto_test:
>
> Then the package would not FTBFS and it would not take 18 hours to build.
>
>
> B. Enable the tests in verbose mode, abort if any of them fails.
> Then be ready to fix those who fail or make the build process to hang,
> or carefully disable those who fail or make the build process to hang,
> and only those:
>
> override_dh_auto_test:
>         dh_auto_test -- V=1
>
> This option is probably the right thing to do, but of course it may
> take time and effort.
>
> Thanks.
>
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