Hi,
I ended up here after realizing that a bunch of Emacs packages I use
got removed from testing due to this bug.
Lucas Nussbaum (2022-09-18):
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
> on amd64.
>
>
> Relevant part (hopefully):
>> make[2]: Entering directory '/<>'
>> Loading /<>/t/magit-tests.el (source)...
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot find suitable directory for
>> output in ‘nati...")
>> error("Cannot find suitable directory for output in `nati...")
>> comp-trampoline-compile(abort-recursive-edit)
I can reproduce this with sbuild, but not with pbuilder.
It seems to belong the same class of errors that was fixed in dh-elpa with
https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa/-/commit/d80ee7a8a159f20316640ec9e6a928e3c57d3f6e
But magit's debian/rule has override_dh_elpa_test, so we don't benefit
from the dh-elpa fix.
The attached patch replicates the dh-elpa fix in t/magit-tests.el,
which fixes the problem allows running the test suite.
Unfortunately, 2/20 tests fail, so the attached patch won't fit the
FTBFS (which is why I'm not tagging this "patch"):
Loading /<>/t/magit-tests.el (source)...
Cannot determine Magit’s version (error "/<>/lisp/magit.el" repo
static elpa dirname hash)
Running 20 tests (2022-11-22 08:13:25+, selector ‘t’)
passed 1/20 magit--with-safe-default-directory (0.015131 sec)
Keeping test directory:
/tmp/magit-TDFbME/
Test magit-get backtrace:
signal(magit-git-error ("clone of '/tmp/magit-TDFbME/remote' into su
(condition-case err (let* ((vnew #'(lambda ( _))) (old (symbol-
(let ((dir (file-name-as-directory (make-temp-file "magit-" t))) (pr
(let ((lexical-binding nil)) (let ((dir (file-name-as-directory (mak
(lambda nil (let ((lexical-binding nil)) (let ((dir (file-name-as-di
ert--run-test-internal(#s(ert--test-execution-info :test #s(ert-test
ert-run-test(#s(ert-test :name magit-get :documentation nil :body (l
ert-run-or-rerun-test(#s(ert--stats :selector t :tests [... ... ...
ert-run-tests(t #f(compiled-function (event-type event-args) #
ert-run-tests-batch(nil)
ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit()
(progn (load-file "t/magit-tests.el") (ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit)
command-line-1(("-L" "./lisp" "-L" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-
command-line()
normal-top-level()
Test magit-get condition:
(magit-git-error "clone of '/tmp/magit-TDFbME/remote' into submodule path
'/tmp/magit-TDFbME/super/repo' failed (in /tmp/magit-TDFbME/super/)")
FAILED 2/20 magit-get (0.708641 sec)
passed 3/20 magit-get-boolean (0.199891 sec)
passed 4/20 magit-get-{current|next}-tag (0.749619 sec)
passed 5/20 magit-in-bare-repo (0.071072 sec)
passed 6/20 magit-in-non-bare-repo (0.080570 sec)
passed 7/20 magit-list-{|local-|remote-}branch-names (0.366282 sec)
passed 8/20 magit-process:match-prompt-match-non-first-prompt (0.91
sec)
passed 9/20 magit-process:match-prompt-nil-when-no-match (0.65 sec)
passed 10/20 magit-process:match-prompt-non-nil-when-match (0.61 sec)
passed 11/20 magit-process:match-prompt-preserves-match-group (0.000111
sec)
passed 12/20 magit-process:match-prompt-suffixes-prompt (0.98 sec)
passed 13/20 magit-process:password-prompt (0.000111 sec)
passed 14/20 magit-process:password-prompt-observed (0.001084 sec)
passed 15/20 magit-status:file-sections (0.868935 sec)
passed 16/20 magit-status:log-sections (0.907880 sec)
passed 17/20 magit-toplevel:basic (0.245211 sec)
Keeping test directory:
/tmp/magit-6jLVvi/
Test magit-toplevel:submodule backtrace:
signal(magit-git-error ("clone of '/tmp/magit-6jLVvi/remote' into su
(condition-case err (let* ((vnew #'(lambda ( _))) (old (symbol-
(let ((dir (file-name-as-directory (make-temp-file "magit-" t))) (pr
(let ((find-file-visit-truename nil)) (let ((dir (file-name-as-direc
(let ((lexical-binding nil)) (let ((find-file-visit-truename nil)) (
(lambda nil (let ((lexical-binding nil)) (let ((find-file-visit-true
ert--run-test-internal(#s(ert--test-execution-info :test #s(ert-test
ert-run-test(#s(ert-test :name magit-toplevel:submodule :documentati
ert-run-or-rerun-test(#s(ert--stats :selector t :tests ... :test-map
ert-run-tests(t #f(compiled-function (event-type event-args) #
ert-run-tests-batch(nil)
ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit()
(progn (load-file "t/magit-tests.el") (ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit)
command-line-1(("-L" "./lisp" "-L" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-
command-line()
normal-top-level()
Test magit-toplevel:submodule condition:
(magit-git-error "clone of '/tmp/magit-6jLVvi/remote' into submodule path
'/tmp/magit-6jLVvi/super/repo' failed (in /tmp/magit-6jLVvi/super/)")
FAILED 18/20 magit-toplevel:submodule (0.249347 sec)
passed 19/20 magit-toplevel:tramp (1.286620 sec)
passed 20/20 magit-utils:add-face-text-property (0.50 sec)
Ran 20 tests, 18 results as expected, 2
