Bug#975791: system-config-printer: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: make -j4 check VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: system-config-printer
Version: 1.5.12-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20201125 ftbfs-bullseye

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> echo "#!/bin/bash" > "test-xml-validity.sh"
> echo "#!/bin/bash" > "py.test.sh"
> echo "set -e" >> "test-xml-validity.sh"
> echo "exec " >> "py.test.sh"
> echo "xmllint --relaxng \\" >> "test-xml-validity.sh"
> chmod 755 "py.test.sh"
> echo "    ./xml/preferreddrivers.rng \\" >> "test-xml-validity.sh"
> echo "    ./xml/preferreddrivers.xml >/dev/null" >> "test-xml-validity.sh"
> echo "/usr/bin/python3 ./xml/validate.py \\" >> "test-xml-validity.sh"
> echo "    ./xml/preferreddrivers.xml" >> "test-xml-validity.sh"
> chmod 755 "test-xml-validity.sh"
> PASS: py.test.sh
> FAIL: test-xml-validity.sh
> ====================================================
>    system-config-printer 1.5.12: ./test-suite.log
> ====================================================
> 
> # TOTAL: 2
> # PASS:  1
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> 
> .. contents:: :depth: 2
> 
> FAIL: test-xml-validity.sh
> ==========================
> 
> ./xml/preferreddrivers.xml validates
> Validating ./xml/preferreddrivers.xml
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/./xml/validate.py", line 79, in <module>
>     if not validator.validate ():
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/./xml/validate.py", line 38, in validate
>     (drivertypes, preferenceorder) = preferreddrivers.getchildren ()
> AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute 'getchildren'
> FAIL test-xml-validity.sh (exit status: 1)
> 
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for system-config-printer 1.5.12
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 2
> # PASS:  1
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> ============================================================================
> See ./test-suite.log
> ============================================================================
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:1414: test-suite.log] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:1522: check-TESTS] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1768: check-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1299: check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> dh_auto_test: error: make -j4 check VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/11/25/system-config-printer_1.5.12-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.