[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#854341: libchado-perl: FTBFS: The following enviroment variables not detected: CHADO_DB_USERNAME

[Santiago Vila]

severity 854341 important
thanks

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 06:25:05PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> I'm tempted to set the severity to this bug to normal/minor.  Could you
> please try again whether we can even close it?

I'm making this bug not RC in the meantime.

My current theory is that this is an artifact of the setup used by
Chris to build packages.

In my own setup, I use sbuild + eatmydata + overlayfs.

I can build most packages with such setup, but sometimes I get some
strange build failures which disappear when I stop using eatmydata or
overlayfs. An example:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842786

So I always have to disable those addons and try again after a build
failure to be sure that the build failure is real.

I believe that this build failure could be similar, because AFAIK
docker uses overlayfs internally.

But of course, I could be wrong.

Thanks.