Bug#1027529: gnote: FTBFS: ../src/test/unit/datetimeutests.cpp:97:1: error: Failure in pretty_print_date: Expected Yesterday but was Dec 31 2022

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 9:58 AM Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
> El 13/1/23 a las 15:36, Jeremy Bicha escribió:
> > Control: severity -1 minor
> > Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnote/-/issues/145
> >
> > I'm downgrading the severity since the package builds fine today;
> > might build fine every day except January 1.
>
> Why don't you disable the test instead? It's clearly wrong.
>
> If we start allowing packages to FTBFS one day a year,
> building the 34231 source packages in bookworm
> might result in 93 completely gratuitous failures.
>
> I don't think that's the standard of quality we want for bookworm.

The test failure might be showing an actual behavior bug. I reported
the issue upstream so they can figure out whether the app needs to be
fixed or the test needs to be fixed.

The test failure on January 1 is a minor issue since that day is a
global holiday. It's rare to build or rebuild this package on that
day: this FTBFS bug may have existed for more than 8 years.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha