Re: Can't compile liblocale-gettext-perl and dpkg packages

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Talles wrote:

>> #   Failed test '--list should fail'
>> #   at ../../src/t/100_dpkg_divert.t line 56.
>
> That's odd.  Looking at t/100_dpkg_divert.t, that means that @$args
> was ("--list") but $opts{'expect_failure'} was true, and none of the
> tests are actually set up that way.

Doh --- apparently I can't read.

Here's the test:

| SKIP: {
|     skip "running under fakeroot", 3, if (defined($ENV{FAKEROOTKEY}));
| 
|     # An inexistent diversions db file should not be considered a failure,
|     # but a failure to open it should be.
|     install_diversions('');
|     system("chmod 000 $admindir/diversions");
|     call_divert_sort(['--list'], expect_failure => 1,
|                 expect_stderr_like => qr/(cannot|failed).*open/, expect_stdout => '');
|     system("chmod 644 $admindir/diversions");
| }

I assume you are running tests as root.  This was fixed by 7e17d3bf
(dpkg-divert: fix the test-suite to also skip tests that would fail if
run as root, 2011-07-27).

Sorry for the misdirection,
Jonathan