Bug#852883: systemd: FTBFS: Test failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 29/01/17 at 17:28 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 29.01.2017 um 17:10 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> 
> > Yes, tzdata is no longer build-essential, and is not installed in the
> > chroot.
> 
> [..]
> 
> > Actually, I did a rebuild specifically for that some time ago (to file
> > all bugs in that category). I assume that something changed on the
> > systemd side, causing it to succeed some time ago, but to fail now.
> > Maybe that test is new?
> > 
> 
> E.g. the test_timezone_is_valid() check was added in 2014. I suspect
> something else: "init" is no longer eseential, and as a result installed
> by default in the buildd chroot (and I assume this was the case as well
> on your rebuild), which made the test-suite failures non-fatal:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851445
> 
> We fixed that in 232-11

No, I don't think that's the problem. Here is an older build log, from
systemd 232-8, from 2017-01-10, which was successful.

Those two tests were already failing:
FAIL test-calendarspec (exit status: 134)
FAIL test-time (exit status: 134)

But did not cause the build to fail.

That's strange...

Lucas