[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#839454: syslog-ng-incubator: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: make -j1 check VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: syslog-ng-incubator
Version: 0.5.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161001 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-tree'
> /usr/share/syslog-ng/tools/lex-rules.am:14: warning: overriding recipe for target '.y.c'
> make[4]: warning: ignoring old recipe for target '.y.c'
> PASS: modules/grok/tests/test_grok
> FAIL: modules/date/tests/test_date
> =================================================
>    syslog-ng-incubator 0.5.0: ./test-suite.log
> =================================================
> 
> # TOTAL: 2
> # PASS:  1
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> 
> .. contents:: :depth: 2
> 
> FAIL: modules/date/tests/test_date
> ==================================
> 
> [2016-10-01T12:45:59.824883] Failed to open the time zone file; filename='', message='Failed to open file \'\': open() failed: No such file or directory'
> [2016-10-01T12:45:59.824906] Bogus timezone spec, must be in the format [+-]HH:MM, offset must be less than 24:00; value='America/Phoenix'
> 
>   ###########################################################################
>   #
>   # FAIL: ASSERTION FAILED: incorrect date parsed msg=Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:48:46 offset=0 format=%a, %d %b %Y %T; actual='2015-01-27T11:48:46+00:00', expected='2015-01-27T11:48:46-07:00' actual_length=25 expected_length=25
>   #
>   ###########################################################################
> 
> FAIL modules/date/tests/test_date (exit status: 1)
> 
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for syslog-ng-incubator 0.5.0
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 2
> # PASS:  1
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> ============================================================================
> See ./test-suite.log
> Please report to viktor.juhasz at balabit.com
> ============================================================================
> Makefile:2162: recipe for target 'test-suite.log' failed
> make[4]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-tree'
> Makefile:2268: recipe for target 'check-TESTS' failed
> make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-tree'
> Makefile:2480: recipe for target 'check-am' failed
> make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-tree'
> Makefile:2483: recipe for target 'check' failed
> make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-tree'
> dh_auto_test: make -j1 check VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2

If the failure looks somehow time/timezone related:
Note that this rebuild was performed without the 'tzdata' package
installed in the chroot. tzdata used be (transitively) part of
build-essential, but it no longer is. If this package requires it to
build, it should be added to build-depends. For the release team's
opinion on this, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836940#185

If the failure looks LSB-related:
similarly to tzdata, lsb-base is not installed in the build chroot.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/10/01/syslog-ng-incubator_0.5.0-1_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.