Re: Bug#854381: unblock: apt/1.4~rc1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

David Kalnischkies:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:56:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Julian Andres Klode:
>>> Please unblock package apt
>>
>> It seems to introduce a CI regression.
>>
>> https://ci.debian.net/packages/a/apt/unstable/amd64/
> […]
> | Statistics: 234 tests were run: 233 successfully and 1 failed
> | Failed tests:  test-apt-tagfile-fields-order
> 
> The failing test checks if apt knows all fields dpkg knows – which as
> dpkg introduced a new field "Auto-Built-Package" in 1.18.19 is making
> all apt versions fail that test, we just happened to be uploading around
> the same time.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> There is another testcase regression hidden on Debian infra as its
> running the tests on amd64: One test calls: date -d '0-12-25' which is
> an invalid date on 32bit architectures… as the test is about the day
> much more than the year a future release is going to change years.
> 
> 
> We could be doing another upload to fix this I guess if you prefer, but
> perhaps its better to get that huge diff out of the way first and deal
> with these minor things later. We^WJulian will do as you prefer. ;P
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> David Kalnischkies
> 

Ok, I have unblocked the current version.

Thanks,
~Niels