Bug#839442: libtime-parsedate-perl: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: libtime-parsedate-perl
Version: 2015.103-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161001 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):
> 
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t/datetime.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 325 Failed: 23)
>   Failed tests:  86-89, 160-162, 166-168, 176-179, 186-187
>                 192, 197, 213-214, 221, 238-239
> t/order1.t  (Wstat: 512 Tests: 5 Failed: 2)
>   Failed tests:  3-4
>   Non-zero exit status: 2
> t/order2.t  (Wstat: 512 Tests: 5 Failed: 2)
>   Failed tests:  3-4
>   Non-zero exit status: 2
> Files=4, Tests=335,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys +  0.10 cusr  0.02 csys =  0.14 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> Failed 3/4 test programs. 27/335 subtests failed.
> Makefile:846: recipe for target 'test_dynamic' failed

If the failure looks somehow time/timezone related:
Note that this rebuild was performed without the 'tzdata' package
installed in the chroot. tzdata used be (transitively) part of
build-essential, but it no longer is. If this package requires it to
build, it should be added to build-depends. For the release team's
opinion on this, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836940#185

If the failure looks LSB-related:
similarly to tzdata, lsb-base is not installed in the build chroot.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/10/01/libtime-parsedate-perl_2015.103-1_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.