Bug#795756: [SVN-Hooks] libsvn-hooks-perl: FTBFS: t/02-generic.t: Failed tests: 11-12 (#3)

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Sat Aug 22 20:16:19 UTC 2015


Hi Chris,

Upstream for SVN-Hooks looked into it so it seems to be triggered by a
subversion bug in 1.9:

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:09:32PM -0700, Gustavo Chaves wrote:
> It seems that this is a bug on Subversion 1.9. I've just sent a
> message to the users at subversion.apache.org list with the subject
> "svn (un)lock commands succeed when pre-(un)lock hooks fail on svn
> 1.9" explaining it in detail.
> 
> In summary, the "svn lock" and the "svn unlock" commands succeed on
> svn 1.9 even if the corresponding hooks (pre-lock and pre-unlock)
> fail.
> 
> I think I'll have to check the subversion version and disregard
> those two tests if I'm using svn 1.9.x.

I wonder if we actually should reassign this to subversion and add an
affects libsvn-hooks-perl, but as well add a workaround for this in
our package so that if does not FTBFS.

Regards,
Salvatore



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