augeas ftbfs in 18.04 LTS

[Matthias Klose]

[SRU]

[Impact]

The Augeas package cannot be built in Bionic due to a couple of tests fail (test-rwlock1,test-thread_create). These tests should not be run because they are not actually testing Augeas.

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/sru-lp-1828074-bionic-augeas-large-http-files

[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-gnulib-tests" is still present in the d/rules file.

[Other Info]

 Fixed on Debian in version 1.11.0-2, commit id : 5af464b75bf4f30b3766c3bde2a4555f1e1dadc6 (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/augeas/-/commit/5af464b75bf4f30b3766c3bde2a4555f1e1dadc6)

 Commit description: Disable gnulib tests, thanks to Matthias Klose (Closes: #919662)

 Bug on Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919662

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>/msg08798.html

[Original Report]

according to
http://people.canonical.com/~doko/ftbfs-report/test-rebuild-20181222-bionic.html

augeas ftbfs.

The tests run the gnulib testsuite, where one test fails. Fixed in disco.

[Miriam España Acebal (mirespace)]

The two failing tests are:

-test-rwlock1
-test-thread_create

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted augeas into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/augeas/1.10.1-2ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Miriam España Acebal (mirespace)]

The package builds ok in bionic as can be seen in ppa:mirespace/sru-lp-1828074-bionic-augeas-large-http-files (publishing details here: https://launchpad.net/~mirespace/+archive/ubuntu/sru-lp-1828074-bionic-augeas-large-http-files/+sourcepub/12717076/+listing-archive-extra).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package augeas - 1.10.1-2ubuntu1

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augeas (1.10.1-2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0005-Replace-pure-funcs-calls-in-path-expr-w-result.patch:
    Replace pure function invocations in path
    expressions with their result. (LP: #1828074)
    Thanks to David Lutterkort <email address hidden>.
  * d/rules: Disable gnulib tests due to that tests are not
    testing augeas itself. (Closes: #919662) (LP: #1813566)
    Thanks to Matthias Klose.

 -- Miriam España Acebal <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:18:53 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for augeas has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.