Build-time tests are disabled

[Sudip Mukherjee]

The tests during builds have been disabled in Debian as they were failing.
But the tests are failing because they are trying to run parallelly and thus causing errors.
All the tests pass if we disable the parallel builds.

imho, it is better to keep the tests enabled to catch any problem and disable parallel builds.

A salsa MR has been raised about this - https://salsa.debian.org/mckinstry/lcov/-/merge_requests/2/

[Sudip Mukherjee (sudipmuk)]

debdiff attached for Noble.

The build with the change can be seen at https://launchpad.net/~sudipmuk/+archive/ubuntu/lcov/+build/27760406

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

While I agree with the sentiment, it's better to submit the patch to Debian instead, it's not worthwhile to introduce an Ubuntu-specific delta for this in a universe package as it would mean that instead of being automatically synced someone will have to put in manual work to keep it updated.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

I asked for this because of the SRU bug 2051166 isn't really fixed in Noble otherwise (I don't think disabling tests counts, which is what's effectively happened here), which is usually an SRU blocker.

There was discussion about this on IRC here: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2024/02/15/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t12:38

[Robie Basak (racb)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lcov - 2.0-4ubuntu1

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lcov (2.0-4ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Re-enable tests by disabling multiple threads while building. Tests are
  * failing with multiple threads. (LP: #2052836)

 -- Sudip Mukherjee <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:28:32 +0000