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

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 23:33:09 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:

> > 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.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.
 
> > So you got a failing build? [...]
> Yes, so far I got a failed build and three successful builds.
> I attach the failed build.

Thanks!
 
> > (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.

Agreed -- in general; my point is that this 50% failure rate only
occurs on the reproducible build setup and not on ci.debian.net or my
machine (or anybody else's who tried to hunt this this annoying bug).


Cheers,
gregor

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