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Bug#1067131: clojure-mode: Tests stuck when running under autopkgtest



Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> control: tag -1 + pending
> control: close 1067133
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed 20 Mar 2024 at 12:06am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>
>> Found the upstream fix for the test failures[1].  I have backported the
>> patch in [2]
>
> In the future, especially with dgit-maint-merge(7), it's a good idea to
> use 'git cherry-pick -x' to backport upstream patches like this, so that
> it's easily traceable by others.  In lieu of this, I've added a note of
> the upstream commit in d/changelog.
>

Good tip!  Will use this in future.

>> Meanwhile, it looks like I was jumping to conclusion a little too
>> soon.  TL;DR it will still get stuck without running in the source
>> directory.  So IMHO disabling autopkgtest would be a sensible choice,
>> which I did in [3].
>>
>> Also built and uploaded the latest version to mentors[4].  PTAL.  TIA!
>>
>> Longer analysis of tests getting stuck:
>>
>> Comparing working and not working settings using strace, I noticed that
>> during buttercup tests it would get stuck closing
>> test/clojure-mode-refactor-rename-ns-alias-test.el, which I still didn't
>> know why unfortunately.  If I disabled/renamed this file, buttercup
>> would finish running, and would fail due to unable to load clojure-mode
>> in the source tree.  And yes, specifically the file in the source tree
>> as in the following error message:
>>
>> ,----
>> | Cannot open load file: No such file or directory,
>> | /home/manphiz/Projects/debian-packaging/clojure-mode/clojure-mode
>> `----
>>
>> I even tried directly using `--eval "(load-library \"clojure-mode\")"`
>> which actually succeeded, but it still failed with the same error.
>> Given this I would have to assume that buttercup requires running in the
>> source tree.
>
> It's likely possible to patch the tests; I doubt it's fundamental to Buttercup.
>

I got the same feeling.  Will continue to investigate.

> Thanks for adopting the package.

Np!
-- 
Xiyue Deng

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