Bug#839516: libclass-date-perl: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: libclass-date-perl
Version: 1.1.15-1
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):
> ok 8 - tzdst
> not ok 9 - epoch
> ok 10 - epoch
> ok 11 - gmdate
> Dubious, test returned 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
> Failed 4/11 subtests 
> 
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t/50_timezone.t (Wstat: 1024 Tests: 11 Failed: 4)
>   Failed tests:  4-6, 9
>   Non-zero exit status: 4
> Files=7, Tests=193,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr  0.00 sys +  0.20 cusr  0.02 csys =  0.27 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> Failed 1/7 test programs. 4/193 subtests failed.
> Makefile:1023: 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/libclass-date-perl_1.1.15-1_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.