Dear Mentors, my package parlatype is failing reprotest in dh_auto_test. In detail a test in appstream-util is failing: it checks the release date in shipped appstream data and if the time is varied, that release date is in the future, resulting in a failed test, failed build and failed reprotest. Log output is:
--- command --- /usr/bin/appstream-util validate-relax --nonet com.github.gkarsay.parlatype.appdata.xml --- stdout --- com.github.gkarsay.parlatype.appdata.xml: FAILED: • attribute-invalid : <release> timestamp is in the future --- stderr --- Validation of files failed ------- This is not uploaded yet, only in Debian Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/gabork-guest/parlatype What would be the best solution to this problem:: 1) Disabling appstream-util test entirely. 2) Running reprotest with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck There is a commit for Salsa CI pipeline removing this option because it might hide reproducibility problems: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/commit/4942def0eac1808aeead80cd87e8d4c6560a96f1 There is a similar discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786644 "reproducible builds should vary whether nocheck is added to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS" This package doesn't change the binary during the test. The first build could be run with the test, the second build could be run without and there should be no difference in the binary. I understand I could change this in Salsa CI, but not for the tests run on the archive. I failed to find out which options are used for the repro tests run on the archive and I guess they can't be changed on a per-package basis? 3) Is there a possibility to continue reprotest even if dh_auto_test failed, making it non-fatal? Those are the solutions I could think of, what would you advise? Regards, Gabor
