Package: lintian Version: 2.116.3 Severity: important Tags: ftbfs While running Lintian's testsuite on a much faster system compared to my Sid amd64 running development workstation, I noticed the following test suite failure when running "private/runtests" or trying to build the package on a more modern and more performant box with Bookworm amd64. (Use "private/runtests -o test:ancient-source" to just run the affected test.)
# Hints do not match # # --- debian/test-out/eval/checks/unpack/ancient-source/hints.specified.calibrated # +++ debian/test-out/eval/checks/unpack/ancient-source/hints.actual.parsed # -ancient-source (source): unpack-message-for-source tar: ancient-source-1.0/README: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 23:59:59 # +ancient-source (source): unpack-message-for-source tar: ancient-source-1.0/README: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 00:59:59 # debian/test-out/eval/checks/unpack/ancient-source/generic.t .. 1/1 # Failed test 'Lintian passes for ancient-source' # at /home/abe/debian/lintian/lib/Test/Lintian/Run.pm line 343. # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1. But I neither get that failure on my Sid amd64 development workstation nor on SalsaCI (https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/pipelines) nor in pbuilder nor on the buildd (https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=lintian). So I tried to find differences. $ als debian/test-out/packages/checks/unpack/ancient-source/ancient-source_1.0.orig.tar.gz ancient-source-1.0/README -rw-r--r-- root/root 21 1970-01-01 00:59 ancient-source-1.0/README $ env TZ=GMT als debian/test-out/packages/checks/unpack/ancient-source/ancient-source_1.0.orig.tar.gz ancient-source-1.0/README -rw-r--r-- root/root 21 1969-12-31 23:59 ancient-source-1.0/README But these two outputs are identical on both hosts, the one where the test fails and one of those where it doesn't fail. So the timestamp actually seems to be the same and it's just Lintian's parsing of it seems to differ. The only potentially relevant package version difference I found was tar, which is at 1.34+dfsg-1.1 in Sid and 1.34+dfsg-1 in Bookworm due to a recent FTBFS on 32-bit architectures. But the sole change was in debian/copyright and also downgrading the tar version in Sid to the one from Bookworm didn't make the test failing on Sid. Also running the test suite with "env TZ=GMT" prepended didn't make a difference. Additionally, build 2.116.2 did work on that very same box where 2.116.3 now FTBFS. So it seems to have caused been a recent change (since 2023-01-29) in Bookworm. Or maybe such a change just uncovered an older bug. The locales of two systems where it builds and where it no more builds: Builds fine: LANG=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8" LC_TIME="C.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8" LC_NAME="C.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8" LC_ALL= No more builds fine (but hasn't change since when it still built fine): LANG=C LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= Also both systems have "Europe/Zurich" in their /etc/timezone. So I currently have no idea where the difference comes from or which environmental change (variables or package versions) triggers it. Cc'ing the Reproducible Builds project in the hope that they have an idea what could have caused the 1h offset in the testsuite on that one box. Bug report written on the system where the test failed. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.40-2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1 ii clzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.13-5 ii diffstat 1.65-1 ii dpkg 1.21.19 ii dpkg-dev 1.21.19 ii file 1:5.44-3 ii gettext 0.21-10 ii gpg 2.2.40-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6 ii iso-codes 4.12.0-1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-2 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b1 ii libclone-perl 0.46-1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-2 ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.32-1+b1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-2 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1 ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.03-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.19 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b1 ii libencode-perl 3.19-1+b1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3 ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4 ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-2 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-3 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004004-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2 ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4 ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.144-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b1 ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b2 ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.001+ds-1+b1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.001+ds-2 ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3 ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.28-1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b1 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b1 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.16-1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b2 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-2 ii liburi-perl 5.17-1 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.15-1 ii libwww-perl 6.67-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.86+ds-1 ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.23-5 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.11.2-1 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.36.0-7 ii plzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.10-5 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-27 ii xz-utils 5.4.1-0.1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.40-2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1 -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
