[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#909275: xorg-server breaks onioncircuits autopkgtest: expected string, NoneType found

[Julien Cristau]

Control: reassign -1 onioncircuits 0.5-2
Control: retitle -1 onioncircuits: flaky autopkgtest?

This doesn't seem related to xorg-server.

Cheers,
Julien

On 09/20/2018 09:36 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Source: xorg-server, onioncircuits
> Control: found -1 xorg-server/2:1.20.1-3
> Control: found -1 onioncircuits/0.5-2
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: breaks needs-update
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> With a recent upload of xorg-server the autopkgtest of onioncircuits
> fails in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages
> of xorg-server from unstable. Interesting data point, with 2:1.20.1-2
> from two days ago it passed. It passes when run with only packages from
> testing. In tabular form:
>                        pass            pass          fail
> xorg-server            from testing    2:1.20.1-2    2:1.20.1-3
> onioncircuits          from testing    0.5-2         0.5.2
> all others             from testing    from testing  from testing
> 
> I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Based on
> reading the xorg-server changelog, I suspect these tests are trying to
> activate something on screen and now they are missing the active area:
>   * xvfb-run*: Update default resolution and bitdepth to match upstream
>     defaults.
> 
> Currently this regression is contributing to the delay of the migration
> of xorg-server to testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed
> this bug report against both packages. Can you please investigate the
> situation and reassign the bug to the right package? If needed, please
> change the bug's severity.
> 
> More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
> https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=xorg-server
> 
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/o/onioncircuits/1022616/log.gz
> 
> autopkgtest [16:47:15]: test gui-test: [-----------------------
> waiting for Tor to settle...
> E
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: test_has_correct_circuits (__main__.TestOnionCircuitsGUI)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "debian/tests/check-circuits", line 70, in test_has_correct_circuits
>     self.assertEqual(self._get_circuits(), mycircs)
>   File "debian/tests/check-circuits", line 54, in _get_circuits
>     circs.add(", ".join(nicks))
> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 1 test in 1.046s
> 
> FAILED (errors=1)
> autopkgtest [16:47:37]: test gui-test: -----------------------]
>