Bug#834272: glib2.0: FTBFS in testing

Sun Aug 14 13:54:32 UTC 2016

Control: tags 834272 + patch
Control: forwarded 834272 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767240

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 at 02:21:40 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> ERROR:/build/glib2.0-2.48.1/./glib/tests/regex.c:82:test_new: assertion failed (g_regex_get_compile_flags (regex) == data->real_compile_opts): (0x00000000 == 0x00000001)

This is caused by a PCRE behaviour change - as usual, GLib's GRegex
tests find PCRE behaviour changes more readily than PCRE's. Allison
Lortie proposed a patch upstream, although it hasn't been applied yet.

Testing that patch in the Debian package now.

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