[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#739020: Bug#739020: run tests during build

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Martin,

Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> writes:
> The main ingredient is a patch to allow specifying a different path
> for /etc/machine-id, as that does not yet usually exist (particularly,
> not in buildd chroots). Upstream rejected the patch back then
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62344), but it's rather
> simple, so doesn't hurt too bad for a distro patch.
Actually, reading the upstream bug log, it seems like the better path to
fix this would be to make /etc/machine-id available in the buildd
chroots.

Why don’t we do that instead of working around the issue? :)

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Best regards,
Michael