[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#902525: xorg-gtest: FTBFS in buster/sid (failing tests)

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: retitle -1 xorg-gtest only succeeds its tests in a minimal 
build chroot, otherwise FTBFS

Hi Santiago,

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:50:51 +0000 Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
 > Package: src:xorg-gtest
 > Version: 0.7.1-3
 > Severity: serious
 > Tags: ftbfs
 >
 > Dear maintainer:
 >
 > I tried to build this package in buster with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
 > but it failed:
 >
 > 
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 > [...]

I have tried this and the situation is that I can reproduce your build 
failure on a locally installed buster system and also in a chroot with 
unstable that contains various other packages (e.g. this and that 
desktop env, etc.).

However, when the build runs in a minimal chroot only containing the 
packages (and their deps) as found in Build-Depends: of debian/control, 
then the tests of xorg-gtest succeed.

If you really need to build this package on local systems, then we need 
to find out why the build fails in over-populated-with-packages chroots 
and identify a package that needs to be placed in debian/control's 
Build-Conflicts: field.

I lower severity of the issue slightly, as the builds on Debian's buildd 
succeed.

Mike