Bug#849142: test regression in test_dex.test_differences with enjarify >= 1.0.3

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: found -1 65

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:53:04PM +0100, Levente Polyak wrote:
> current version: git HEAD 8dde15f9200094882c26a1cf422556c43ec5d5dc
> 
> The test_differences test case fails in the test_dex module when using
> enjarify 1.0.3. A downgrade of enjarify to 1.0.2 makes the test pass
> again. As enjarify 1.0.3 itself seems to do what its supposed to do, i
> think the test diff/output is just too strictly tied to the 1.0.2 output.

And this now came into unstable too, and we're seeing that error in
buildds and in ci.d.n.

> If the guess above is actually the case, a possible workaround may be to
> expect enjarify to be 1.0.2 and skip the test otherwise.
> However we start ending up with too many tests strictly tight to a very
> specific toolset version, making a more general approach for multiple
> sets more and more important.

ISTR you mentioning a patch for that making the test compatible with
both versions, care to share? :)

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