#1081417 gnome-settings-daemon: should ideally run additional build-time tests

Package:
src:gnome-settings-daemon
Source:
src:gnome-settings-daemon
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-01-10 11:06:25 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1081417#5
Date:
2024-09-11 14:05:03 UTC
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In several of the buildd builds, test-xsettings fails with:

There's some previous discussion of this on
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/20

    smcv
#1081417#12
Date:
2024-09-13 19:24:07 UTC
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Simon, I'm following up here instead of at
https://bugs.debian.org/1081519 because I didn't think we needed to
copy the Release Team on this and it's a more specific issue.

These build tests backed by Mutter have only been enabled starting in
July. We didn't know that we weren't running them, but we could
consciously choose not to run them now. They won't run if mutter and
related Build-Depends marked with
<!nocheck> and architecture qualifiers aren't installed at build time.

One negative of using Mutter for gnome-settings-daemon build tests is
that gnome-settings-daemon is used by several other desktops like
GNOME Flashback which we expect would be easier for some architectures
to get working than Mutter. That's why I was ok with not running these
tests on many architectures anyway.

Do you want me to basically just undo my test enablement from July or
do you want to use a different approach?

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
#1081417#17
Date:
2024-09-18 13:16:32 UTC
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Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 gnome-settings-daemon: should ideally run additional build-time tests
Control: block -1 by 1081437 1081439 1081440
Control: severity 1081437 wishlist
Control: severity 1081439 wishlist
Control: severity 1081440 wishlist

These tests are now disabled. We can (and perhaps should) re-enable them
in future, but only if someone can get them to be reliable enough to make
a good QA gate.

    smcv
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