[Pkg-javascript-devel] which recently changed dependency broke node-terser? See bug#950666

[Xavier]

Le 05/02/2020 à 12:01, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Quoting Xavier (2020-02-05 05:56:27)
>> Le 04/02/2020 à 21:48, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>>> Quoting Xavier (2020-02-04 21:32:17)
>>>> Le 04/02/2020 à 21:02, Xavier a écrit :
>>>>> Le 04/02/2020 à 17:52, Xavier a écrit :
>>>>>> Le 4 février 2020 17:06:44 GMT+01:00, Jonas Smedegaard 
>>>>>> <dr at jones.dk> a écrit :
>>>>>>> node-terser has not been changed for 3 months.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Today it was reported broken: https://bugs.debian.org/950666
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Smells like the thing broken is some recent change in its 
>>>>>>> dependency chain rather than the node-terser package itself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone recognize a recently uploaded module among the ones 
>>>>>>> below?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mocha, perhaps?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> @Xavier, you mention in changelog that mocha had "successful 
>>>>>>> tests" - did those tests include rebuilding node-terser?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't test all rebuild but fixed all autopkgtest failures due 
>>>>>> to mocha changes (all easy to fix btw). I'll take a look at 
>>>>>> terser tomorrow morning.
>>>
>>>>> build fails also, this seems not related to mocha:
>>>
>>> I agree that the cause of the problem seems to be unrelated to 
>>> mocha: I wrongly assumed that the issue was but but apparently it 
>>> began in December: 
>>> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/node-terser.html
>>>
>>> That said, I am puzzled by the build failure you are presenting here 
>>> - my build failures and those at tests.reproducible-builds.org are 
>>> unrelated to help2man - can you please share more information about 
>>> how you ensure that the build environment is clean (do you use 
>>> pbuilder or some other method?) and ideally point to a full build 
>>> log (please reference only, not attach: it is rather big).
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for helping look into this,
>>
>> I built simply using sbuild and a minimal unstable schroot. Here are 
>> the logs
> 
> I am not familiar with sbuild, but seems the option "--no-clean-source" 
> makes it less interesting (and I guess that also relates to the lack of 
> listing which exact versions of all non-core packages was installed).
> 
> For the node-terser issue specifically, it does not really matter (I 
> agree that mocha is unlikely causing it), but if unclean builds is the 
> level of testing you generally do, then I strongly urge you to do 
> better: Test in a clean chroot!
> 
> Thanks anyway,

This option is not the problem (it does not mean wht you think): same
result without