Bug#796152: liblocale-gettext-perl: FTBFS on reproducible.debian.net: test failures

[Kim Vandry]

On 2015-08-19 15:49, Niko Tyni wrote:
> This package fails its test suite on the reproducible.debian.net
> CI setup in the "second build", where the build environment is varied
> as far as possible from the first one. The list of variations is at
>
>   https://reproducible.debian.net/reproducible.html
>
> and a failing build log is at
>
>   https://reproducible.debian.net/logs/unstable/amd64/liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-9.build2.log.gz
>
> The failure happened identically when I rescheduled another try, but I
> haven't found an explanation yet. Similar test failures can be triggered

Hello Niko,

I checked the build log at that URL and I did not actually see a test 
failure in there, however there are many test failures on CPAN testers 
including on Debian stable as can be seen here:

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/98dd4f64-5e2c-11e5-8fcd-c964e0bfc7aa

I believe I know what the cause of the failure in that case: the 
$LANGUAGE environment variable which GNU gettext uses but the test data 
generation script did not know about.

That problem should now be fixed in version 1.07:

https://github.com/vandry/Perl-Locale-gettext
https://metacpan.org/pod/release/PVANDRY/Locale-gettext-1.07/gettext.pm

That version also obsoletes both patches that the Debian module is 
currently carrying, so I recommend upgrading the Debian package to 
upstream 1.07 to fix this problem.

-kv