Bug#720812: biber: FTBFS: Tests failed

[David Suárez]

Source: biber
Version: 0.9.9+release-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130825 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«BUILDDIR»/biber-0.9.9+release'
> dh_auto_test -- test_files="t/basic-misc.t t/bcfvalidation.t t/biblatexml.t t/bibtex-aliases.t t/configfile.t t/crossrefs.t t/encoding.t t/endnotexml.t t/extrayear.t t/full.t t/labelalpha.t t/labelname.t t/names.t t/options.t t/pod-coverage.t t/pod.t t/related-entries.t t/ris.t t/sections-complex.t t/sections.t t/set-dynamic.t t/set-legacy.t t/set-static.t t/skips.t t/sort-case.t t/sort-complex.t t/sort-order.t t/sort-uc.t t/sorting.t t/sortlists.t t/structure-constraints.t t/structure-dateformats.t t/uniqueness.t t/utils.t t/xdata.t t/zoterordfxml.t"
> t/basic-misc.t ............. ok
> t/bcfvalidation.t .......... ok
> t/biblatexml.t ............. ok
> t/bibtex-aliases.t ......... ok
> t/configfile.t ............. ok
> t/crossrefs.t .............. ok
> t/encoding.t ............... ok
> t/endnotexml.t ............. ok
> t/extrayear.t .............. ok
> t/full.t ................... ok
> t/labelalpha.t ............. ok
> t/labelname.t .............. ok
> t/names.t .................. ok
> t/options.t ................ ok
> 
> #   Failed test 'Pod coverage on Biber::Output::biblatexml'
> #   at /usr/share/perl5/Test/Pod/Coverage.pm line 126.
> # Biber::Output::biblatexml: requiring 'Biber::Output::biblatexml' failed
> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 24.
> t/pod-coverage.t ........... 
> Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
> Failed 1/24 subtests 
> t/pod.t .................... ok
> t/related-entries.t ........ ok
> t/ris.t .................... ok
> t/sections-complex.t ....... ok
> t/sections.t ............... ok
> t/set-dynamic.t ............ ok
> t/set-legacy.t ............. ok
> t/set-static.t ............. ok
> t/skips.t .................. ok
> t/sort-case.t .............. ok
> t/sort-complex.t ........... ok
> t/sort-order.t ............. ok
> t/sort-uc.t ................ ok
> t/sorting.t ................ ok
> t/sortlists.t .............. ok
> t/structure-constraints.t .. ok
> t/structure-dateformats.t .. ok
> t/uniqueness.t ............. ok
> t/utils.t .................. ok
> t/xdata.t .................. ok
> t/zoterordfxml.t ........... ok
> 
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t/pod-coverage.t         (Wstat: 256 Tests: 24 Failed: 1)
>   Failed test:  14
>   Non-zero exit status: 1
> Files=36, Tests=854, 35 wallclock secs ( 0.30 usr  0.24 sys + 33.25 cusr  2.14 csys = 35.93 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> Failed 1/36 test programs. 1/854 subtests failed.
> dh_auto_test: perl Build test test_files=t/basic-misc.t t/bcfvalidation.t t/biblatexml.t t/bibtex-aliases.t t/configfile.t t/crossrefs.t t/encoding.t t/endnotexml.t t/extrayear.t t/full.t t/labelalpha.t t/labelname.t t/names.t t/options.t t/pod-coverage.t t/pod.t t/related-entries.t t/ris.t t/sections-complex.t t/sections.t t/set-dynamic.t t/set-legacy.t t/set-static.t t/skips.t t/sort-case.t t/sort-complex.t t/sort-order.t t/sort-uc.t t/sorting.t t/sortlists.t t/structure-constraints.t t/structure-dateformats.t t/uniqueness.t t/utils.t t/xdata.t t/zoterordfxml.t returned exit code 255

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/08/25/biber_0.9.9+release-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.