#1033698 fonts-rit-sundar: autopkgtest fails: output on stderr: Program root: /usr

#1033698#5
Date:
2023-03-30 13:03:57 UTC
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Dear maintainer(s),

Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, it recently started to
fail (January/February 2023). Can you please investigate the situation
and fix it? I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. I
suspect it's related to the /usr-merge changes.

The release team has announced [1] that failing autopkgtest on amd64 and
arm64 are considered RC in testing. [Release Team member hat on] Because
of the timing in the release (we're in hard freeze) and because the test
itself still passes and there's only additional output on stderr, I
tagged the bug as bookworm-ignore. A targeted fix is still appropriate.

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be
found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/07/msg00002.html

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/f/fonts-rit-sundar/32247687/log.gz

autopkgtest [10:20:47]: test command1: [-----------------------
Program root: /usr
Generating RIT-Sundar.sfd => RIT-Sundar.ttf
Testing font RIT-Sundar
autopkgtest [10:20:49]: test command1: -----------------------]

#1033698#12
Date:
2024-10-12 14:32:55 UTC
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The autopkgtest failure for fonts-rit-sundar looks to me like it's just
caused by the upstream test suite writing to stderr.  So it can be fixed
by adding this to debian/tests/control:

Restrictions: allow-stderr

That takes the test from failing to passing on my system.