[Reportbug-maint] Bug#843337: reportbug: test suite fails when ‘mh’ command not available

[Ben Finney]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.6.6
Severity: minor

I have installed all build dependencies (“Build-Depends” and
“Build-Depends-Indep”) for ‘reportbug’, so the test suite should pass.

Instead, the test suite fails in the absence of the ‘mh’ command,
which is not brought in by any dependency:

=====
test_mua_exists (test.test_utils.TestMua) ... FAIL

======================================================================
FAIL: test_mua_exists (test.test_utils.TestMua)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/bignose/Projects/debian/reportbug/devel/test/test_utils.py", line 377, in test_mua_exists
    self.fail("%s MUA program not available" % mua)
AssertionError: mh MUA program not available

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=====

One of these two resolutions is needed:

* If the ‘mh’ command is a strict dependency of the code base, then
  the build dependencies should be corrected to ensure that command is
  installed.

* If the ‘mh’ command is not a strict dependency of the code base,
  then the test suite should not fail when that command is absent.


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor=''"
PAGER="less"
VISUAL="emacsclient --alternate-editor=''"
DEBEMAIL="bignose at debian.org"
EMAIL="ben at benfinney.id.au"
DEBFULLNAME="Ben Finney"
INTERFACE="urwid"

** /home/bignose/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.4.4"
mode advanced
ui urwid
editor "ecw"
mua "mutt"
no-cc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.3.1
ii  python-reportbug  6.6.6
pn  python:any        <none>

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                        <none>
ii  debconf-utils                     1.5.59
ii  debsums                           2.1.2
ii  dlocate                           1.07
ii  emacs24-bin-common                24.5+1-7
ii  file                              1:5.29-1
ii  gnupg                             2.1.15-4
ii  msmtp-mta [mail-transport-agent]  1.6.5-1
ii  python-gtk2                       2.24.0-5.1
pn  python-gtkspellcheck              <none>
ii  python-urwid                      1.3.1-2+b1
pn  python-vte                        <none>
ii  xdg-utils                         1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.3.1
ii  file              1:5.29-1
ii  python-debian     0.1.29
ii  python-debianbts  2.6.1
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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