Bug#841532: libgit2: FTBFS under some timezones (eg. GMT-14)

2016-10-23 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Russell, > I think that preventing random failures from Debian build infrastructure > is the best I can do for the time being Well, not if the upstream library code itself is broken wrt to the timezones and its not just some peculiarity of the test. In fact, if the code is broken then breaking

Bug#841532: libgit2: FTBFS under some timezones (eg. GMT-14)

2016-10-23 Thread Russell Sim
Yeah, I totally agree it's an upstream bug, the bug exists in not only this version but also the master branch so I can't backport a fix. I did have a quick look at the test code, and it's not obviously due to that, so it must be related to how they store or retrieve the offset in this case. I'

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2016-10-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > forwarded 841532 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3970 Bug #841532 [src:libgit2] libgit2: FTBFS under some timezones (eg. GMT-14) Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3970'. > thanks Stopping process

Bug#841532: libgit2: FTBFS under some timezones (eg. GMT-14)

2016-10-23 Thread Chris Lamb
forwarded 841532 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3970 thanks Russell Sim wrote: > I have forwarded this bug report upstream > https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3970 in the mean time I'll add > a fix to the existing package to force tests to run in GMT timezone. Be careful; it c

Bug#841532: libgit2: FTBFS under some timezones (eg. GMT-14)

2016-10-22 Thread Russell Sim
Chris Lamb writes: Hi Chris, Thanks for reporting this, I have forwarded this bug report upstream https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3970 in the mean time I'll add a fix to the existing package to force tests to run in GMT timezone. > Source: libgit2 > Version: 0.24.1-2 > Severity: seri

Bug#841532: libgit2: FTBFS under some timezones (eg. GMT-14)

2016-10-21 Thread Chris Lamb
Source: libgit2 Version: 0.24.1-2 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs timezone X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear Maintainer, libgit2 fails to build from source in unstable/amd64