Control: severity -1 normal Hi Christoph,
I've uploaded the package from mentors to unblock testing transition, but let's keep this bug open as reference that some improvement to the autopkgtest would be possible without huge effort. cu Adrian On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 04:14:55PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 10:32:45AM +0200, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber wrote: > > Dear Adrian, > > > > this bug has already been fixed in 0.17.1-2, which is waiting for > > sponsorship on Debian mentors. > > > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/stimfit/ > > > > The failing test tried to run `stimfit --help`, which initializes the > > wx/GTK application and therefore fails in the headless ci.debian.net > > environment. > >... > > This could be fixed by running inside xvfb-run. > > The bigger problem is that "stimfit -h" returns 255, > which is likely the reason why "|| true" was added, > which would make the test pass despite certain errors. > > If "stimfit -h" would return 0, then > xvfb-run -a stimfit -h > should work as autopkgtest.[1] > > > Best wishes, > > Christoph > > cu > Adrian > > [1] needs a xvfb test dependency, and might also need an allow-stderr > autopkgtest restriction
