Bug#818142: flycheck: FTBFS in testing (failing tests)

2016-08-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Thanks again for your feedback. On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:30:07AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > 1. flycheck tends to FTBFS because the test suite contains many tests > > which encode expected output from ~30 command line tools. When one of

Bug#818142: flycheck: FTBFS in testing (failing tests)

2016-08-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Sean Whitton wrote: > 1. flycheck tends to FTBFS because the test suite contains many tests > which encode expected output from ~30 command line tools. When one of > those tools sees a new upstream version which tweaks its output, the > test breaks. Perhaps encoding the expe

Bug#818142: flycheck: FTBFS in testing (failing tests)

2016-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear Santiago, Thanks for your build logs. 1. flycheck tends to FTBFS because the test suite contains many tests which encode expected output from ~30 command line tools. When one of those tools sees a new upstream version which tweaks its output, the test breaks. 2. The test suite also fails u