Re: Autopkgtest for Segemehl

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@tchncs.de>]

On 8/1/21 4:57 PM, Shruti Sridhar wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have written autopkgtests for segemehl[1]. 
> The package was failing blhc and reprotrest in the pipeline. I managed to fix the blhc error

Great! You seem to have understood the concept :)

> but I am a little stuck on how to begin fixing reprotest[2].
> 
> Kindly review

Looks good.

> and let me know how I can proceed

So, on doing a debdiff, the main .deb is same, what is differing is the debug symbols (segemehl-dbgsym_0.3.4-4+salsaci_amd64.deb) instead

$ debdiff control/source-root/segemehl_0.3.4-4+salsaci_amd64.deb experiment-1/source-root/segemehl_0.3.4-4+salsaci_amd64.deb 1>/dev/null
$ echo $?
0


$ debdiff control/source-root/segemehl-dbgsym_0.3.4-4+salsaci_amd64.deb experiment-1/source-root/segemehl-dbgsym_0.3.4-4+salsaci_amd64.deb 1>/dev/null
$ echo $?
1

>From my discussions on reproducible builds mailing list, it needs to be fixed at compiler level, and there might not be much we can do here.
So I'd suggest disabling reprotest for this package simply.
Look at the logol package to see how that can be done

Nilesh