* Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, 2014-04-02, 12:41:
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
I laughed (bitterly :P) a bit too, but actually it's not very surprising that software that manipulates dates has a date-dependent bug.
Here are some other examples: https://bugs.debian.org/555931 FTBFS in November. https://bugs.debian.org/629699 FTBFS... sometimes. -- Jakub Wilk