Bug#1082815: analizo: FTBFS (tests fail) on sid

[gregor herrmann]

Caught this in ratt for src:ossp-uuid,
but it fails on a clean sbuild -d unstable analizo.

Thanks for your bug report.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce it, the package still builds fine for
me in my sid cowbuilder chroot.

Can you provide any further hints?

Cheers,
gregor

[Santiago Vila]

severity 1082815 important
thanks

Hi.

Based on this line from your build log, you seem to be building the package using the "root" user:

LOGNAME=root

and in fact I can confirm that the package did not build for me when I tried to build it with sbuild as root.

But nobody is supposed to do that. Packages are supposed to be built
using a regular (non-root) user.

I'm just downgrading so that the bug is not RC, but I leave the details to the
analizo maintainers (i.e. maybe retitle, maybe wishlist, or maybe not a bug at all).

Thanks.

[наб]

Hi!
yes

Post by Santiago Vila
But nobody is supposed to do that. Packages are supposed to be built
using a regular (non-root) user.

I don't think this is true, actually.
As I read it, the policy says that, even if you spec R-R-R: no,
the build /may/ be run as non-root, but must always work,
and if you're root has no bearing on this, so it must work here.

(but ftr I don't disagree with the downgrade ‒ this is implied twice,
and this argument is hard to maintain for B-D: dpkg-build-api (= 1)
packages (which this is not! but); I just left the reportbug defaults)

Best,