[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#841558: node-tap: FTBFS: help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/tap.js

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: node-tap
Version: 0.7.1-1.1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161021 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  debian/rules build
> dh build
>    dh_testdir
>    dh_update_autotools_config
>    dh_auto_configure
>    debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> help2man -N -n "Test-Anything-Protocol module for Node.js" bin/tap.js -o "debian/tap.1"
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/tap.js
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> debian/rules:20: recipe for target 'debian/tap.1' failed
> make[1]: *** [debian/tap.1] Error 1

If the failure looks somehow time/timezone related:
Note that this rebuild was performed without the 'tzdata' package
installed in the chroot. tzdata used be (transitively) part of
build-essential, but it no longer is. If this package requires it to
build, it should be added to build-depends. For the release team's
opinion on this, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836940#185

If the failure looks LSB-related:
similarly to tzdata, lsb-base is not installed in the build chroot.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/10/21/node-tap_0.7.1-1.1_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.