[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#719261: Bug#719261: bzr-git: FTBFS in sid pbuilder with test failures

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:07:34PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at debian.org> wrote:
> >> This is FTBFS for me in a sid [amd64] pbuilder. Full log attached.
> > I'm having trouble reproducing this outside of a pbuilder. The
> > breakage might depend on the fact that there is no .gitconfig in your
> > build chroot.
> >
> > It shouldn't be too hard to fix I think, but I'm not planning to work
> > on this bug.
> 
> Totally understandable. If I could get some advice though, I'd greatly
> appreciate it.
> 
> Passing a committer and an author to the two tests that call do_commit
> (from dulwich) directly fixes the problem. The third failing commit
> calls store_git_pristine_tar_data (from bzr-git). I don't see a way to
> fix this without adding a committer and/or an author parameter to the
> function. That would be simple enough it seems, as it is a wrapper
> around do_commit. Does that sound like the right approach, or am I
> missing something in my cursory look at the code?
Sure, that sounds quite reasonable.

Note that while this is the most pressing issue breaking
bzr-git at the moment, there are a couple of other problems that will
need addressing for it to actually be usable in the long wrong. In
particular, without signed tag and mergetag support it won't be usable
on repositories with tags in the future.

It's probably possible to patch it up in the short run, but it really
needs a long term maintainer to take over.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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