clhep: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: make -j1 check returned exit code 2

[Andreas Moog]

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/713377:

Source: clhep
Version: 2.1.3.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: <email address hidden>
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130620 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> make[6]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/Matrix/test'
> make[6]: Nothing to be done for `testBug7328.log'.
> make[6]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/Matrix/test'
> fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create testBug7328.trs
> fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create testBug7328.log
> make[5]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/Matrix/test'
> make[4]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> dh_auto_test: make -j1 check returned exit code 2

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/06/20/clhep_2.1.3.1-1_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.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Well, that worked well... NOT.

The package I uploaded builds fine in a sbuild chroot, but not on the autobuilders and I can't reproduce the test failures. So either we upload a package with the failing tests disabled - or leave as is and hope for upstream to come up with a solution.

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

Version 2.1.4.1-1 was released in Debian claiming to fix this bug. But it looks like there are other build failures now.

[Sebastian Carneiro (scarneiro)]

Bug #713377 refers to another failing test. Changing to #713301, that refers to this same failing test.

[Sebastian Carneiro (scarneiro)]

I have found a possible fix to this bug. Discussing it with upstream, and waiting for confirmation before proposing that fix here.

Upstream bug: https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/index.php?104289

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

I think this was fixed in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clhep/2.1.4.1-1.1. At least that version built fine in archives.