[DRE-maint] Bug#730644: ruby-bio: FTBFS: Error: libxml-ruby library is not present.

[Andreas Moog]

Package: ruby-bio
Version: 1.4.3.0001-1
Severity: serious

Hello there,

I tried building your package in a clean unstable chroot, but it failed:

> ===============================================================================
> Failure:
>   Error: libxml-ruby library is not present. Please install libxml-ruby library. It is needed for Bio::PhyloXML module. Unit test for PhyloXML will not be performed.
>   <nil> is not true.
> test_libxml(Bio::TestPhyloXMLWriter_Check_LibXML)
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/test/unit/bio/db/test_phyloxml_writer.rb:31:in `test_libxml'
>      28: module Bio
>      29:   class TestPhyloXMLWriter_Check_LibXML < Test::Unit::TestCase
>      30:     def test_libxml
>   => 31:       assert(defined?(LibXML),
>      32:              "Error: libxml-ruby library is not present. Please install libxml-ruby library. It is needed for Bio::PhyloXML module. Unit test for PhyloXML will not be performed.")
>      33:     end
>      34:   end #class TestPhyloXMLWriter_Check_LibXML
> ===============================================================================
> F
> ===============================================================================
> Failure:
>   Error: libxml-ruby library is not present. Please install libxml-ruby library. It is needed for Bio::PhyloXML module. Unit test for PhyloXML will not be performed.
>   <nil> is not true.
> test_libxml(Bio::TestPhyloXML_Check_LibXML)
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/test/unit/bio/db/test_phyloxml.rb:29:in `test_libxml'
>      26: module Bio
>      27:   class TestPhyloXML_Check_LibXML < Test::Unit::TestCase
>      28:     def test_libxml
>   => 29:       assert(defined?(LibXML),
>      30:              "Error: libxml-ruby library is not present. Please install libxml-ruby library. It is needed for Bio::PhyloXML module. Unit test for PhyloXML will not be performed.")
>      31:     end
>      32:   end #class TestPhyloXML_LibXMLCheck
> ===============================================================================

I don't know why it is failing, the libxml-ruby library is pulled in via
the build-depends. I've attached a full buildlog.

Cheers,
  Andreas

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