This test failure is still not fixed in version 3.22.1+dfsg1-1. I faced this issue in Ubuntu:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/482047556/buildlog_ubuntu-groovy-amd64.ruby-hoe_3.22.1+dfsg1-1_BUILDING.txt.gz The important part is: 1) Failure: TestHoe#test_possibly_better [/<<BUILDDIR>>/ruby-hoe-3.22.1+dfsg1/test/test_hoe.rb:354]: Expected: 2020-05-30 00:00:00 UTC Actual: 2020-04-02 00:00:00 UTC 39 runs, 104 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips This is the failing test: https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe/blob/v3.22.1/test/test_hoe.rb#L354 After some investigation and chatting with Utkarsh, we noticed the Actual date which is calling 'spec.date' is for some reason parsing the date in the last entry of the debian/changelog, while Gem::Specification::TODAY returns the date you are building the package. The reason this package built fine in the last upload is because buildd built it on the same day it was uploaded. Since this is a downstream issue and this is not a bug in the gem code, we are planning to patch this package to comment out this single test. Cheers! -- Lucas Kanashiro
