Bug#726694: devscripts: FTBFS: Test failure

[Benjamin Drung]

On Fr, 2013-10-18 at 00:15 -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> Control: clone -1 -2
> Control: reassign -2 distro-info-data 0.16
> Control: retitle -2 Update needed for Ubuntu releases
> Control: severity -2 normal
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 08:58:01PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > OK
> > ./test_debchange
> > testDebianDistributions
> > testDebianIncrement
> > testUbuntuIncrement
> > ASSERT:error output of perl -I ./.. ./../scripts/debchange.pl -c /tmp/shunit.YruOw0/tmp/changelog --vendor Ubuntu -i "Version test."
> >  expected:<> but was:<Distribution data outdated. Please check for an update for distro-info-data. See /usr/share/doc/distro-info-data/README.Debian for details. at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/DistroInfo.pm line 130.
> 
> As the output states, distro-info-data needs to be updated since there's
> a new Ubuntu release out.  We can make dch (and its tests) more robust
> in this scenario, but the real fix is for a new distro-info-data to be
> made available.

We could make dch tests more robust. Once distro-info gets support for
the "devel" alias, I doubt that we need to adjust the test cases any
more.

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer