Bug#968975: glib2.0: FTBFS in experimental fails doc-test on glib

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 08:59:52 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 23:44:35 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > I am observing in experimental & groovy-proposed
> > 
> > 271/273 glib / gio-doc-check                            OK             0.07s
> > Running suite(s): gtk-doc-glib
> > glib-unused.txt:1:E: 36 unused documentation entries
> > 
> > 75.0%: Checks 4, Failures: 1
> > 272/273 glib / glib-doc-check                           FAIL           0.07s (exit status 1)
> 
> I think this might mean we need a newer snapshot of gtk-doc with more
> bugs fixed. I've been trying to get upstream closer to making an actual
> release of gtk-doc.

I think the reason we don't see this on Debian buildds (or during my
release process for GLib, which behaves the same as the Debian buildds
by doing Architecture: any and Architecture: all builds separately) is that
in the glib2.0 packaging, dh_auto_test is skipped when you are only doing
Architecture: all builds.

If I remember correctly, Ubuntu buildds produce the Architecture: all
packages as a side-effect of the amd64 build, instead of building them
separately? That's the only situation under which the current packaging
would run glib-doc-check.

    smcv