Bug#948256: FTBFS: test failures

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting gregor herrmann (2020-01-06 05:05:25)
> As first seen on ci.d.n. [0] the package's test suite fails after the 
> update
> 
> - -libregexp-pattern-license-perl 3.0.31-4
> +libregexp-pattern-license-perl 3.1.99-1

Possibly related: Licensecheck was broken yesterday after upload of 
libregexp-pattern-license-perl 3.1.x into unstable, until I got around 
to releasing an updated licensecheck.

Another possible cause is that only --machine and --deb-machine outputs 
are expected to be reliable (default output is for humans and may change 
without notice).  Also, _additions_ of license and copyright discoveries 
is not a bug, so a testsuite should ideally check if a match is found 
rather than if a computed license expression is identical to 
expectation, and should ideally check if amount of discoveries is _at 
least_ a certain number rather than exactly some number.

If a previous discovery stops getting discovered with a newer 
licensecheck then it is (highly likely) a regression in licensecheck: 
Please file a bugreport against licensecheck!


> Locally during build and also during autopkgtest this looks slighty 
> different but not better:

One explanation for the difference might be that licensecheck had been 
updated by then.

Another might be that licensecheck output now respects encoding of 
locale.  If tests involve non-ASCII characters then try set locale to 
"C.UTF-8".

(...and that change is possibly broken: testsuite of licensecheck itself 
worked fine on my own system, but failed in my pbuilder chroot - which 
caused the the delay in releasing to unstable: I ended up disabling the 
testsuite temporarily :-/ )


 - Jonas

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