[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#929506: gbrowse FTBFS: tests fail

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: gbrowse
Version: 2.56+dfsg-4
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs sid

gbrowse fails to build from source using sbuild in unstable:

| Test Summary Report
| -------------------
| t/00.compile.t          (Wstat: 4608 Tests: 87 Failed: 18)
|   Failed tests:  1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 17-18, 25, 28, 30, 32
|                 34, 40, 44, 46, 59, 86
|   Non-zero exit status: 18
| t/01.yeast.t            (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
|   Non-zero exit status: 2
|   Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 7 tests but ran 0.
| 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: No plan found in TAP output
| 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: No plan found in TAP output
| 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=93,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr  0.00 sys +  1.88 cusr  0.27 csys =  2.18 CPU)
| Result: FAIL
| Failed 8/10 test programs. 18/93 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
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:23: override_dh_auto_test] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
| make: *** [debian/rules:12: build] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

This is also observed by reproducible builds using pbuilder:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/unstable/amd64/gbrowse_2.56+dfsg-4.rbuild.log.gz

According to reproducible builds, it does not fail in buster or earlier.

Helmut