Bug#852891: lintian: FTBFS: Test failures

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:26:15 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote:
> Source: lintian
> Version: 2.5.50
> Severity: serious
> Tags: stretch sid
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170128 qa-ftbfs
> Justification: FTBFS on amd64
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.
> 
> [...]
> 
> The full build log is available from:
>    http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/01/28/lintian_2.5.50_unstable.log
> 
> A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
> http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!
> 
> About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
> Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
> failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.
> 
> 

Smells like it is caused by file:

 file (1:5.29-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Restore full local.support-local-definitions-in-etc-magic patch.
     Closes: #852476
   * Include all upstream commits since the 5.29 release
   * Improve detection of Flash data. Closes: #838860

Could be either #838860 (most likely) or #852476 (in theory).

Guess we will need a stretch branch.

Thanks,
~Niels