[Python-apps-team] Bug#902523: txt2tags: FTBFS in buster/sid (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:txt2tags
Version: 2.6-4
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in buster with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
but it failed:

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 debian/rules build-indep
dh build-indep --with python2 --buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_update_autotools_config -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_autoreconf -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_configure -i -O--buildsystem=pybuild
W: pybuild base:249: missing command (plugin=custom, method=configure, interpreter=python2.7, version=2.7)
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_build
W: pybuild base:249: missing command (plugin=custom, method=build, interpreter=python2.7, version=2.7)
cd doc && /usr/bin/make build
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
s=`basename manpage-ca.man .man | sed -e 's/manpage/txt2tags/;s/-/./'`; \

[... snipped ...]

Entering on module includeconf
  Testing includeconf-empty ... OK
  Testing includeconf-targeted-inside ... OK
  Testing includeconf-nesting ... OK
  Testing includeconf-nesting-folder ... OK
  Testing includeconf-text ... OK
  Testing includeconf-not-found ... OK
  Testing includeconf-body ... OK
  Testing includeconf-itself ... OK
  Testing includeconf-targeted ... OK
  Testing includeconf-multi ... OK
  Testing includeconf-default ... OK
  Testing includeconf-nesting-folder-back ... OK
  Testing C ... OK
  Testing config-file ... OK
  Testing C-C ... OK
  Testing config-file-config-file ... OK
  Testing C-C2 ... OK
  Testing config-file-config-file2 ... OK
  Testing C-default ... OK
  Testing config-file-default ... OK
  Testing C-empty ... OK
  Testing config-file-empty ... OK
  Testing C-not-found ... OK
  Testing config-file-not-found ... OK
  Testing C-text ... OK
  Testing config-file-text ... OK
  Testing C-targeted-inside ... OK
  Testing config-file-targeted-inside ... OK
  Testing C-nesting ... OK
  Testing config-file-nesting ... OK
  Testing C-nesting-folder ... OK
  Testing config-file-nesting-folder ... OK
  Testing C-nesting-folder-back ... OK
  Testing config-file-nesting-folder-back ... OK

Totals: 255 tests (254 ok / 1 failed)

Check out the files with errors:
marks/error/macro.html
debian/rules:22: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:31: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
make: *** [build-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep subprocess returned exit status 2
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The above is how the build ends in my autobuilder and it's not
necessarily the relevant part.

The failure is not, however, related to using dpkg-buildpackage -A,
as it also fails in reproducible builds:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/txt2tags.html

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and affects,
so that this is still visible in the page for this package.

Thanks.