Bug#834682: mina2: FTBFS in testing (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I tried building this package 20 times this morning.

It failed 19 times. The build logs are attached in a single tarball.

There is something which may help in this bug: there is a new upstream
release of mina available (2.0.14).

So I'd like to propose that you or anybody in the team maintaining
this package do this:

* Raise this to serious (where it belongs, it's a FTBFS bug).

* Disable completely the tests for this version (trivial patch attached).
  The upload doing that would naturally close this bug.

  Disabling only the tests that fail would be also an option, but the tests
  failing for me are not the same failing for Gregor, and it would not be
  really productive or useful to determine which of the tests are ok and
  which ones are not when we have a new upstream release available that may
  have some or all of the failing tests already fixed.

* Try to upload mina version 2.0.14 for unstable (but this time without the patch)
  to see if things improve with the new version. Hopefully this version does not
  fail anymore, or maybe it fails for you and for me at the same time.

Would this plan be acceptable to you?

If yes, please go ahead and stop reading. Thanks a lot!

If not: there is a tag called stretch-ignore which is the right way to
make a serious bug like this one not to be RC:

https://release.debian.org/stretch/rc_policy.txt

Please read the relevant paragraph: You would have to ask the Release
Managers for permission first, you can't just downgrade a FTBFS bug on
your own as a way to make it not RC.

But I really believe we can skip all that. Believe me, it is not my
intention or desire to see this package autoremoved from Debian or
anything like that, everything I ask is that it builds ok, and that's
very easy to achieve with the attached path.

Thanks.
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