Bug#784845: libdevel-gdb-perl: autopkgtest failure in t/expect.t

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:09:27AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:13:55 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > BTW: In this particular package, I decided to raise the severity after
> > finding the failure myself while checking for bugs regarding "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
> > *and* also getting unsuccessful build logs from reproducible builds as well.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand the connection to building with -A. Is
> there a report about the package failing with it? Does it fail for
> you if you build with -A?

I only build with -A, but there are a lot of packages for which a
failed build with -A and a failed build without -A are essentially the
same thing.

For example: this package, libdevel-gdb-perl, is "Arch: all" and it
has a minimal dh-style debian/rules. If "dpkg-buildpackage -A" fails,
it is almost sure that it's not a bug in debian/rules or a bug in the
packaging but a bug which would qualify as an "ordinary" FTBFS bug.

So when I build a package with -A and it fails, I go to the
reproducible builds site to see the build logs there. If it fails
there too, then I know that -A has nothing to do with the failure.

> So you got a failing build? [...]

Yes, so far I got a failed build and three successful builds.
I attach the failed build.

> (And on the reproducible builds it works roughly half of the time:
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/libdevel-gdb-perl.html
> )

That's more or less my point: For a package which is "Arch: all" like
this one, a success rate of only 50% is bad enough not to be RC.

Thanks.
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