For your amusement: Bug#743238: taskwarrior: FTBFS on the last day of the month

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

https://bugs.debian.org/743238 contains IMHO a hilarious reason for a
FTBFS:

----- Forwarded message from Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> -----
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:20:57 +0200
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
To: 743238@bugs.debian.org, James Dietrich <jdietrch@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Bug#743238: taskwarrior: FTBFS on Wheezy

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: retitle -1 taskwarrior: FTBFS on the last day of the month: test/count.t fails

Thanks for debugging. This is very helpful. :-)

* James Dietrich <jdietrch@fastmail.fm>, 2014-03-31, 16:44:
>> The actual failure reason is:
>> 
>> # /usr/local/taskwarrior/task-2.3.0+dfsg/test/count.t
> 
> Hmmm.... I took a quick look at count.t and found this comment:
> 
> # TODO This fails when today == eom.

Eeeek! :-(

> If I'm understanding this correctly, it looks like one shouldn't
> try to build taskwarrior on the last day of the month, such as
> today. I guess I should try again tomorrow, and probably everything
> will work.

I believe that your analysis is correct. When I run the tests with
rigged date (using faketime(1)), they ceased failing.

> If this is correct, perhaps this bugreport should be retitled to
> "FTBFS on the last day of the month"

Done. I also adjusted severity accordingly.

> and linked to an upstream bug report.

I'll do it soon.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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