augeas ftbfs in 18.04 LTS
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
augeas (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Miriam España Acebal |
Bug Description
[SRU]
[Impact]
The Augeas package cannot be built in Bionic due to a couple of tests fail (test-rwlock1,
On some platforms the GNUlib test suite can be flaky. This disables it, since errors in the GNUlib test suite are often not important because the tests can be checking nothing related to the package itself (nothing pretending to be cross-platformed for glibc is being used by the package itself but tested because all the gnulib tests are being included).
[Test Plan]
Without the fix, you couldn't build the package in Bionic. You can see
the successfully built of the package once the fix is applied in the
following PPA:
ppa:mirespace/
[Where problems could occur]
This fix is cherry picked from Debian, so the bug is corrected in following augeas package versions. Debian maintainers themselves do not consider it necessary to run the gnulib testsuite.
Problems in the future can occur if an included new change relates to an imported module with gnulib-tool, but it couldn't be the case because in the latest Debian releases this "--disable-
[Other Info]
Fixed on Debian in version 1.11.0-2, commit id : 5af464b75bf4f30
Commit description: Disable gnulib tests, thanks to Matthias Klose (Closes: #919662)
Bug on Debian: https:/
By the way, the failure for these two tests have been reported here and it seems to be a bug for coreutils package: https://<email address hidden>
[Original Report]
according to
http://
augeas ftbfs.
The tests run the gnulib testsuite, where one test fails. Fixed in disco.
Related branches
- Utkarsh Gupta (community): Approve
- Canonical Server MOTU reviewers: Pending requested
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Diff: 206 lines (+162/-1)5 files modifieddebian/changelog (+13/-0)
debian/control (+2/-1)
debian/patches/0005-Replace-pure-funcs-calls-in-path-expr-w-result.patch (+143/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
debian/rules (+3/-0)
Changed in augeas (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in augeas (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in augeas (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Miriam España Acebal (mirespace) |
Changed in augeas (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in augeas (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
The two failing tests are:
-test-rwlock1
-test-thread_create