Package: coreutils
Severity: important
Version: 5.2.1-2
Hi,
The coreutils test suite has a couple of well-known and more-or-less
expected failures on GNU/Hurd. Most notably, the 'uptime' utility is
not ported (as the Hurd itself ships one as well) and 'nice' is confused
by what the Mach kernel reports back, making the test suite fail.
People are working on those issues, but they are not of high priority.
However, not having an up-to-date coreutils is more and more a major
issue for the Debian GNU/Hurd port, as this means debootstrap fails,
mostly blocking all efforts towards a native Debian GNU/Hurd installer.
For the last year or so when coreutils was frozen for sarge, we routed
around this issue by providing a modified coreutils binary package in a
semi-official repository and by having other means than debootstrap to
install Debian GNU/Hurd.
However, sarge is now out and efforts towards porting d-i to hurd-i386
are underway, so this issue should be fixed ASAP. Therefore, I propose
to not run the test suite on hurd-i386 for the time being, until the
issues are sorted out.
One way of achieving this would be to apply the patch in #278915.
Another would be to simply add a check like
ifneq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM),gnu)
cd $(BUILD_TREE) && $(MAKE) check
endif
in build-stamp.
thanks,
Michael
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