Package: texinfo
Version: 7.1-2
X-Debbugs-Cc: Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org>

Hi,

the perl_5.38.2-3 migration checks for texinfo are currently
failing on ci.debian.net.

  https://ci.debian.net/packages/t/texinfo/testing/amd64/41788013/

 160s autopkgtest [07:52:27]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
 160s test-suite           FAIL stderr: In file included from ../system.h:53,

What happens here is that the package build (as requested with
build-needed) gets done with both perl and linux-libc-dev from unstable,
but the actual tests are run with perl from unstable and linux-libc-dev
from testing. This leads to 'make check' noticing that dependencies
have changed and rebuilding (at least part) of the source. The rebuild
produces compiler warnings on stderr, making the test fail.

Please consider adding 'allow-stderr' to the test definition to make
it survive this corner case. The root cause here is presumably the
autopkgtest fallback to install more things from unstable than strictly
needed in case of installability problems, but 'allow-stderr' would
help as a workaround.

Sebastian (cc'd) said he'd ignore the test for Perl 5.38 migration
but asked me to file this.

Thanks for your work on Debian,
-- 
Niko Tyni   nt...@debian.org

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