[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#836230: Bug#836230: genometools: FTBFS in testing (a2x: ERROR: "xsltproc" returned non-zero exit status 6)

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Santiago,

>>> This used to work in the past, so I would look for build-dependencies
>>> which may have changed their behaviour recently.
>>
>> Both docbook-xsl and asciidoc, which may be the relevant build-deps here, didn’t have any recent uploads.
> 
> I found a good candidate:
> 
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/libx/libxslt.html

Yup, one of these transitive dependencies...

> This is the timeline:
> 
> 2016-08-21 successful build in stretch in low memory machine
> 2016-08-23 xsltproc (from source package libxslt) version 1.1.29-1 reaches testing
> 2016-08-31 failed build in stretch in a low memory machine

Ah, this looks suspicious indeed and falls directly into the gap. (By
the way, are these build logs available somewhere? Sounds quite useful
to have such a build history!)

> Should I reassign this to xsltproc, asking for the error message to be
> improved?

Yes please. In any case, I can't see what I could do in the genometools
package: it calls a2x, which is part of asciidoc, which in turn uses
xsltproc. As it seems to be the culprit, maybe their maintainer can have
a look at error reporting.

In any case, I will try to confirm the connection with memory shortage
in any case later.

Thanks,
Sascha


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