[Pkg-qof-maintainers] Bug#383746: qof: FTBFS (hppa, sparc, m68k): test suite failures - help required

[Neil Williams]

I need some help fixing this. I'm the upstream developer and
co-maintainer for libqof1 and I am in the NM process, so don't have
direct access to hppa, sparc or m68k where this problem occurs. sparc
and m68k are flagged as "not keeping up so never mind" so I haven't
looked into those two. Since the upload, I have been monitoring the
buildd reports and trying to identify the source of the problem.

However, my AM has built libqof1_0.7.0-1 on hppa without problems, yet
the buildd hppa build log shows the same test failures.

It is possible to simply disable the tests (which have not been enabled
in previous releases) and let the package build, albeit with bugs on
these architectures.

Alternatively, if someone can build libqof1_0.7.0-1 on hppa (and
possibly sparc / m68k too) and report back - maybe upload the packages
for that arch if QOF builds properly - I'll be very grateful.

The test failures appear in a section of code that tests conversions of
seconds (64bit) into date strings and date strings back to seconds,
using extended versions of strftime and strptime that can handle 64bit
dates on 32bit systems. The code compiles fine, it's only the tests that
fail and not all such tests fail - although the precise number of
failures changes between architectures.

hppa buildd log:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=qof&ver=0.7.0-1&arch=hppa&stamp=1155137213&file=log&as=raw

sparc buildd log:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=qof&ver=0.7.0-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1155137227&file=log&as=raw

m68k buildd log:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=qof&ver=0.7.0-1&arch=m68k&stamp=1155144846&file=log&as=raw

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Neil Williams
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