[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#848236: Remaining issue with gbrowse - any help (Was: Urgent call to BioPerl users (Was: Bug#848236: src:gbrowse: ...)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Lincoln,

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 06:14:34PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> I need a little help to reproduce Gregor's failed tests, given that I'm a
> complete newbie wrt the Debian packaging system. I have cloned gbrowse
> 2.56+dfsg-1 from the Debian Med repository, but I don't know what command
> line to use to attempt the build. What is the next step? I'm guessing it is
> some form of dpkg-buildpackage, but the number of options is pretty
> overwhelming!

If you have installed the devscripts package you can try

    debuild

which is a wrapper around dpkg-buildpackage and in principle needs no
options to reproduce the issue.  Debuild will inform you about missing
Build-Dependencies you need to install - simply use apt-get install what
is listed if anything is missing.  When doing so I get

...
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/00.compile.t          (Wstat: 3840 Tests: 90 Failed: 15)
  Failed tests:  1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 17-18, 29, 31, 33, 35
                41, 45, 47
  Non-zero exit status: 15
t/02.rearchitecture.t   (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 90 tests but ran 0.
t/03.render.t           (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 150 tests but ran 0.
t/04.remoteserver.t     (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 43 tests but ran 0.
t/05.deferredrendering.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 19 tests but ran 0.
t/06.featuresearch.t    (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 26 tests but ran 0.
t/07.karyotype.t        (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 3 tests but ran 0.
Files=10, Tests=103,  5 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr  0.01 sys +  4.19 cusr  0.30 csys =  4.55 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 7/10 test programs. 15/103 subtests failed.
dh_auto_test: perl Build test --verbose 1 TEST_FILES=t/02.rearchitecture.t t/05.deferredrendering.t t/00.compile.t t/01.yeast.t t/07.balancer.t t/08.calign.t returned exit code 255


Kind regards

       Andreas.

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