Subject: Re: Bug#1030586: lintian: Testsuite failure on some systems: 1h time offset in test ancient-source

From: Axel Beckert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 21:59:49 +0100

Hi Vagrant,

Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-02-05, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > While running Lintian's testsuite on a much faster system compared to
> > my Sid amd64 running development workstation, I noticed the following
> > test suite failure when running "private/runtests" or trying to build
> > the package on a more modern and more performant box with Bookworm
> > amd64. (Use "private/runtests -o test:ancient-source" to just run the
> > affected test.)
> >
> > # Hints do not match
> > # 
> > # --- debian/test-out/eval/checks/unpack/ancient-source/hints.specified.calibrated
> > # +++ debian/test-out/eval/checks/unpack/ancient-source/hints.actual.parsed
> > # -ancient-source (source): unpack-message-for-source tar: ancient-source-1.0/README: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 23:59:59
> > # +ancient-source (source): unpack-message-for-source tar: ancient-source-1.0/README: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 00:59:59
> 
> Wild guess would be timezone differences between the build
> environments?

Yeah, that's what I looked for first, but both boxes have
"Europe/Zurich" as timezone and prepending "env TZ=GMT" didn't make a
difference on either side.

Thanks for caring nevertheless!

		Regards, Axel
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