It looks like this is a brittle unit test. Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Failures: > > ! /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/test/ext/test-help:35 '1' = '0' FAILED
This line is: WVPASSEQ 1 $(bup help save | head -1 | grep -cF 'bup-save(1)') The hyphen in the grep expression "bup-save(1)" in the unit test is the ordinary ASCII character 45: ASCII 2/13 is decimal 045, hex 2d, octal 055, bits 00101101: prints as `-' Official name: Hyphen Other names: Dash, Minus, Worm That matches the output of "bup help save | head -1" in the C locale: root@8f8c3e4ea090:/# LC_ALL=C LANG=C bup help save | head -1 | hd troff:<standard input>:5: warning: cannot select font 'CB' troff:<standard input>:152: warning: cannot select font 'C' vv 00000000 62 75 70 2d 73 61 76 65 28 31 29 20 20 20 20 20 |bup-save(1) | ^^ 00000010 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | * 00000070 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 62 | b| 00000080 75 70 2d 73 61 76 65 28 31 29 0a |up-save(1).| 0000008b root@8f8c3e4ea090:/# > The full build log is available from: > http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/07/26/bup_0.33.2-1_unstable.log User Environment ---------------- […] LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 […] However, with a UTF-8 locale I see the hyphen being encoded as the byte sequence 0xE2 0x80 0x90: root@8f8c3e4ea090:/# LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 LANG=C.UTF-8 bup help save | head -1 | hd troff:<standard input>:5: warning: cannot select font 'CB' troff:<standard input>:152: warning: cannot select font 'C' vvvvvvvv 00000000 62 75 70 e2 80 90 73 61 76 65 28 31 29 20 20 20 |bup...save(1) | ^^^^^^^^ 00000010 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | * 00000080 20 62 75 70 e2 80 90 73 61 76 65 28 31 29 0a | bup...save(1).| 0000008f root@8f8c3e4ea090:/# Which is the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character U+2010 'HYPHEN'. So I guess the bup unit tests should probably set LANG/LC_ALL explicitly. Thanks! -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org