bug#26671: serf package (guix dependency) tests fail

[Maxim Cournoyer]

On April 27, 2017 9:01:35 AM PDT, Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1792234
>>>
>>> Rather than using this workaround, which will stop working
>2018-09-19,
>>> we should disable this test. We should also file an upstream bug
>asking
>>> them to fudge the date in their tests, so that we can run this test
>>> suite forever. GnuTLS uses this technique with the 'datefudge' tool.
>>
>> Interesting, I was not aware of "datefudge".
>>
>> I'll disable these tests for now and create an upstream issue once
>I've
>> learned more about the datefudge tool.
>
>I disabled these tests in decb4c26fa1c748b118e33495d5493d84a6ca6c9 and
>also pushed an update for 1.3.9.
>
>Leaving this bug open until the upstream issue is created so it can be
>added here as a reference.

Thanks! :)