Bug#794674: lintian: FTBFS due to test failures with dpkg-dev >= 1.18.2
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.35
Severity: serious
lintian FTBFS in pbuilder as follows:
binary: touch debian/binary-data/DEBIAN/md5sums
binary: dpkg --build debian/tmp ..
binary: dpkg-deb: building package 'binary' in '../binary_4-1.1_amd64.deb'.
binary: dpkg --build debian/binary-data ..
binary: dpkg-deb: building package 'binary-data' in '../binary-data_4-1.1_all.deb'.
binary: make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/abe/lintian/lintian-2.5.35/debian/test-out/tests/binary/binary-4-1.1'
binary: dpkg-genchanges >../binary_4-1.1_amd64.changes
binary: Error parsing time at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20/Time/Piece.pm line 469, <$filehandle> line 16.
binary: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 25
binary: ---- END BUILD LOG
internal error: cd /home/abe/lintian/lintian-2.5.35/debian/test-out/tests/binary/binary-4-1.1 && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -d -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --source-option=--auto-commit >/home/abe/lintian/lintian-2.5.35/debian/test-out/tests/binary/build.binary 2>&1 at t/runtests line 567 thread 5.
This seems to be triggered by dpkg/dpkg-dev now using Time::Piece
instead of Date::Parse. (Credits for finding the culprit go to Jakub
Wilk. Thanks)
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