Dear maintainer(s),

Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, it fails since early
2024 on amd64 and some time later on other architectures. I highly
suspect that the test fails when the file system lives on tmpfs, as is
the case on all architectures nowadays.

The release team has announced [1] that failing autopkgtest on amd64 and
arm64 are considered RC in testing.

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

With my Release Team member hat on I have tagged this as trixie-ignore
as it's so late in the freeze and it's not worth removing the package
from trixie because of this at this moment. Having said that, if a fix
is possible without fully removing the autopkgtest and without making
the test superficial, it's still welcome, but it would need to happen soon.

Paul

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

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/t/toybox/61462994/log.gz

75s PASS: cut -d newline
  75s SKIP: demo_number disabled
  75s PASS: dirname /-only
  75s PASS: dirname trailing /
  75s PASS: dirname combined
  75s PASS: dirname /a/
  75s PASS: dirname multiple
  75s FAIL: du (no options)
  75s echo -ne '' | du -k du_test
  75s --- expected	2025-06-18 19:13:21.103913606 +0000
  75s +++ actual	2025-06-18 19:13:21.107913692 +0000
  75s @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
  75s -4	du_test/test
  75s -8	du_test
  75s +0	du_test/test
  75s +0	du_test
  75s make: *** [Makefile:77: tests] Error 1

Hi,

I've already reported this problem upstream in oct 2021.

 | https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/301

What do you think about aplying the suggested patch on the test?
It makes the test superficial on tmpfs-like filesystem \o/

 | if [ "$(stat --format %b . 2>/dev/null)" != "0" ]; then
 |   echo "$SHOWSKIP: du (tmpfs-like filesystem)"
 |   return 2>/dev/null
 |   exit
 | fi


I think it's the best we can do for trixie.

Thanks for your time Paul!

Hi,

I've already reported this problem upstream in oct 2021.

 | https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/301

What do you think about aplying the suggested patch on the test?
It makes the test superficial on tmpfs-like filesystem \o/

 | if [ "$(stat --format %b . 2>/dev/null)" != "0" ]; then
 |   echo "$SHOWSKIP: du (tmpfs-like filesystem)"
 |   return 2>/dev/null
 |   exit
 | fi


I think it's the best we can do for trixie.

Thanks for your time Paul!

Hi Antoni,


Ack.


Do I understand correctly that you'll only skip this particular test?
And would the test still pass in the regular sense if you run the test
on a non-tmpfs filesystem? Than it sound good to me with the
understanding that this is a test problem and not a fundamental problem
with the package. As said in the original report on ci.d.n all hosts run
the tests on a tmpfs filesystem.

Paul

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
toybox, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1108539@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated toybox package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:37:19 +0200
Source: toybox
Architecture: source
Version: 0.8.9+dfsg-1.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Antoni Villalonga <antoni@friki.cat>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 1108539
Changes:
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 .
   * Non-maintainer upload
   * autopkgtest: install @builddeps@ (Closes: #1108539)
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Actually, this is not fixed.