[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#831234: Bug#831234: Bug#831234: postgresql-9.5: FTBFS: Tests failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 14/07/16 at 16:58 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> Control: retitle -1 FTBFS when built with username "user"
> 
> Re: Stephen Frost 2016-07-14 <20160714142721.GL4028 at tamriel.snowman.net>
> > * Lucas Nussbaum (lucas at debian.org) wrote:
> > > (This might be related to the fact that I use a "user" login on my build
> > > machine)
> > 
> > Yes, it is.
> > 
> > We could possibly remove those tests, but I'm not really thrilled with
> > that idea.  I'm not sure if it'd be at all sensible to try and write
> > something to check if the role "user" already exists.
> > 
> > One thing we could do is provide an alternate expected file which has
> > the results when this test is run with a login user of "user".  That
> > doesn't seem great either though.
> > 
> > In any case, this should probably be sent over to the pgsql-hackers
> > list.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> TBH, I'm not even sure if this is a bug. "user" is so overly generic
> that it shouldn't be used as a user name in the first place.

Hi,

Well, I agree, but for the same reason, it's probably a bad idea to rely
on it not existing in a test suite ;)

> Lucas, can't you just use "buildd" or the like?

Yes, I will change the username used in the rebuilds.

Lucas
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