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[William Ricker <1707979@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Alex Muntada <alexm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Perhaps someone who is authorized to do so can force a re-test?
> Someone did and today's results were still a fail.

Thank you.

> Please, note that autopkgtest setup is different from the usual
> test environment for Perl modules, i.e. you only have the binary
> packages installed and the tests, no other build context is
> available. Thus, successfully running "make test" after building
> the module doesn't mean that autopkgtest will pass those tests
> too.

Does that mean that the test data (in directories under ./t but not
containing *.t files) are not present?

There is likely a URL that would let me inspect the contents of the
package under test, but I didn't spot it in the logs.

> You can find the setup details for Debian in
> http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/autopkgtest.html#SETUP

Wow, that's elegant once it's working but not something I'm going to
do in an idle 20 minutes before dinner.

> You may need to adapt them a bit to run autopkgtest locally for
> Ubuntu, but I think it should work fine to reproduce the fail.
> The --shell-fail option for autopkgtest should help with the
> debugging of this issue.

Since seemingly _all_ tests that actually do any file inspection are
failing, I'm suspecting that our test data is somehow unavailable to
the test?

I note the packagers have patched the Makefile.PL to run the
standalone tests against the library edition, since standalone edition
is not distributed -- unclear to me if that was a Debian decision or
Ubuntu? Perhaps the patch needs re-tweaking to work in latest
autopkgtest environment ?

But that more perplexing, I note that in comment #4, Gregor (gregoa)
said the same package passes the same test upstream on Sid.
https://ci.debian.net/packages/a/ack/unstable/amd64/
If the package passes on Sid, is the problem isolated into Ubuntu
re-packaging of either ack or autopkgtest ?

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Bill Ricker
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  No ack or ack-grep in artful.

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