Bug#1150166: gnome-settings-daemon FTBFS on reproduce.d.n due to test needing state in /run

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Source: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 51.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs

Hi,

gnome-settings-daemon currently fails to reproduce on reproduce.d.n and
is thus blocked from migrating to testing:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-settings-daemon

This is due to the tests needing state in /run, likely /run/systemd,
during the build. This state is not easy to reproduce and missing during
the rebuild with debrebuild as documented in [1]. You can test this in
sbuild with:

sbuild --chroot-mode=unshare --dist=unstable --starting-build-commands="rm -r /run/*" gnome-settings-daemon

Is there a reason why the state is needed?

Otherwise I would propose to rework the tests to run without it.

I also consider adding the rm to the sbuild default setup so it would
fail on the Debian buildds as well.

Cheers Jochen


[1] https://release.debian.org/reproducible-builds-host-requirements.html