Dear maintainer,

According to https://ci.debian.net data, your package borgbackup has an
autopkgtest regression with pytest.

The following architectures failed: amd64, arm64, i386, loong64,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x.

Hopefully relevant excerpt from
https://ci.debian.net/packages/b/borgbackup/testing/amd64/72539238/
follows:

927s =================================== FAILURES ===================================
927s E           AssertionError: assert 'Extracting:' in ''
927s E       AssertionError: '\r' not found in '0 B O 0 B C 0 B D 0 N input\n\n'
927s E       AssertionError: 'Checking segments' not found in 'Starting repository check\nfinished segment check at segment 9\nStarting repository index check\nIndex object count match.\nFinished full repository check, no problems found.\nStarting archive consistency check...\nAnalyzing archive archive1 (1/2)\nAnalyzing archive archive2 (2/2)\nArchive consistency check complete, no problems found.\n'
927s E           AssertionError: assert 'Extracting:' in ''
927s E       AssertionError: assert '' == '  0%\r'
927s E
927s E         -   0%
927s E       AssertionError: assert '' == '  0% スター・トレッ...ーク船長です。    \r'
927s E
927s E         -   0% スター・トレック /カーク船長です。
927s E       AssertionError: assert '' == '  0%\r'
927s E
927s E         -   0%
927s E       AssertionError: '\r' not found in '0 B O 0 B C 0 B D 0 N input\n\n'
928s ===== 8 failed, 1534 passed, 158 skipped, 4 warnings in 827.97s (0:13:47) ======
930s unit                 FAIL non-zero exit status 1
1733s =================================== FAILURES ===================================
1733s E           AssertionError: assert 'Extracting:' in ''
1733s E       AssertionError: '\r' not found in '0 B O 0 B C 0 B D 0 N input\n\n'
1733s E       AssertionError: 'Checking segments' not found in 'Starting repository check\nfinished segment check at segment 9\nStarting repository index check\nIndex object count match.\nFinished full repository check, no problems found.\nStarting archive consistency check...\nAnalyzing archive archive1 (1/2)\nAnalyzing archive archive2 (2/2)\nArchive consistency check complete, no problems found.\n'
1733s E           AssertionError: assert 'Extracting:' in ''
1733s E       AssertionError: assert '' == '  0%\r'
1733s E
1733s E         -   0%
1733s E       AssertionError: assert '' == '  0% スター・トレッ...ーク船長です。    \r'
1733s E
1733s E         -   0% スター・トレック /カーク船長です。
1733s E       AssertionError: assert '' == '  0%\r'
1733s E
1733s E         -   0%
1733s E       AssertionError: '\r' not found in '0 B O 0 B C 0 B D 0 N input\n\n'
1733s ===== 8 failed, 1514 passed, 178 skipped, 3 warnings in 714.80s (0:11:54) ======
1735s unit-nofuse          FAIL non-zero exit status 1
1893s unit                 FAIL non-zero exit status 1
1893s unit-nofuse          FAIL non-zero exit status 1

Control: unmerge 1140857
Control: retitle 1140857 borgbackup: FTBFS and autopkgtest failures related to output/logging
Control: tags 1140857 + fixed-upstream patch

[which also led to a FTBFS]

I found an upstream commit (not in a release yet) that seems to
successfully address these 8 build-time test failures, which are all
related to making assertions about borg's logging/progress/diagnostic
output:

FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::ArchiverTestCase::test_extract_progress - ...
FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::ArchiverTestCase::test_progress_on - Asser...
FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::ArchiverCheckTestCase::test_check_usage - ...
FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::RemoteArchiverTestCase::test_extract_progress
FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::RemoteArchiverTestCase::test_progress_on
FAILED borg/testsuite/helpers.py::test_progress_percentage_sameline - Asserti...
FAILED borg/testsuite/helpers.py::test_progress_percentage_widechars - Assert...
FAILED borg/testsuite/helpers.py::test_progress_percentage_step - AssertionEr...

That leaves two more test failures, related to setxattr
security.capabilities while running under fakeroot:

FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::ArchiverTestCase::test_extract_capabilities
FAILED borg/testsuite/archiver.py::RemoteArchiverTestCase::test_extract_capabilities

which Santiago Vila had reported as #1137392, before the additional
regressions that were first reported in #1140857.

So let's unmerge #1137392 from #1140857 (they were previously merged by
Andrey Rakhmatullin) and use #1140857 to represent the 8 newer
logging-related failures, and #1137392 to represent the 2 older
test_extract_capabilities failures. Both bugs need to be resolved before
borgbackup will pass tests again.

Please see attached for what appears to be the upstream solution to
#1140857.

I also sent a workaround to #1137392 (disabling the use of fakeroot to
run unit tests). Combining that workaround with the upstream patch
attached here should hopefully be enough to get borgbackup compiling
again, although with reduced test coverage.

Thanks,
     smcv

Hello,

Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> writes:

#1137392 appears to have been a fakeroot regression, and I'm happy we
waited instead of reducing borgbackup's test coverage.  I've applied the
patch you cherry picked and my system is half way through the tests.  It
looks to me like this is required adaptation to pytest changes, and that
it will be in the next patch-level upstream release.  In other words,
lets expect success!

Cheers,
Nicholas

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
borgbackup, 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 1140857@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> (supplier of updated borgbackup package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:46:44 -0400
Source: borgbackup
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.4-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Borg Collective <team+borg@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>
Closes: 1140857
Changes:
 borgbackup (1.4.4-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Cherry pick tests-reset-borg.output.progress-logger-between-tests-to-.patch
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