[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#839848: network-manager-openvpn: FTBFS: ERROR:test-import-export.c:823:test_proxy_http_export: assertion failed (error == NULL): failed to write file: Failed to create file

[Jeremy Bicha]

Forwarding to the bug tracker upon request, even if it's slightly off-topic.

The conversation started at
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20160815/006686.html

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
>> network-manager-openvpn fails to build from source in unstable/amd64:
>
> Replying off-bug.
>
> This is because the new Debian version switched to dh compat 10 (with
> parallel building by default), but it built fine on Michael's
> computer. The issue is that the tests are not parallel-safe. I already
> discussed the issue with Michael.
>
> If the reproducible builds project is filing FTBFS bugs (which you do
> a lot of and tag as being related to the reproducible project), then I
> think its scope is pretty broad. And I don't think my suggestion to
> test whether output varies with parallel building disabled is too far
> removed from your goals.
>
> dh 10 is now the recommended compat version and a growing number of
> packages are using it already with the dh sequencer.
>
> Jeremy