Bug#973135: Bug#973070: libsis-base-java: FTBFS: Could not delete the directory targets/unit-test-wd/ch.syst

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:24:29PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Am 29.10.20 um 15:11 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > here is a suggested patch for commons-io that would prevent making the
> > test in libsis-base-java fail.
> 
> It seems this is a six year old unresolved upstream bug.
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-449
> 
> This should be fixed upstream in my opinion and not only in Debian. Other
> projects may rely exactly on that behavior.

Given that there is no clear consensus about what the exact behaviour should
be, I guess it's probably best to disable this test for now. I can confirm
that just commenting out the 2 tests in
src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/components/io/attributes/SymlinkUtilsTest.java
fixes the build.

As a side node: it seems that some of the builds succeed in the
reproducible-builds tests, while others do not. So the issue doesn't show up
in all cases. Maybe it's related to the type of filesystem used.

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/plexus-io.html

Cheers,

Ivo