[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#818142: flycheck: FTBFS in testing (failing tests)

[Sean Whitton]

Dear Santiago,

Thanks for your build logs.

1. flycheck tends to FTBFS because the test suite contains many tests
which encode expected output from ~30 command line tools.  When one of
those tools sees a new upstream version which tweaks its output, the
test breaks.

2. The test suite also fails under certain autobuilder setups.  In
particular, the reproducible builds team's automated builders fail with
mysterious permission errors.  I think it is something to do with their
tmpfs setup -- though I use tmpfs with sbuild and can't reproduce the
error.

Looking at the logs, I believe that the problems identified by both you
and Chris as type (1).  Since I can't reproduce it outside of the
reproducible build servers, I don't consider (2) a bug in flycheck at
present.  So I'll consider this bug as tracking current test suite
failures, and I'll close it with an upload in which the test suite
passes against current Debian sid.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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