Re: Testsuite failure in 3.11

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi,

El dc. 13 de 01 de 2021 a les 16:59 +0200, en/na Sergey Poznyakoff va
escriure:
> Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> ha escrit:
> 
> > Debian chroots set HOME to /nonexistent, and that makes basically
> > all
> > of imap4d test fail. I'm sure we dealt with this in the past
> > already,
> > maybe in the dejaGNU version of the testsuite?
> 
> The DejaGNU testsuite was withdrawn more than nine years ago,
> on 2011-11-28 (prior to mailtils version 2.99.96).  The related
> authentication code hasn't changed since 2007-12-03.  These two facts
> incline me to believe that it is rather the practice of resetting
> the HOME variable that should be fairly recent in Debian.

No, I actually have been making testsuite failures non-fatal (probably
due to this issue), but Debian has been doing this for a long time.


> That being said, I would propose the attached patch.  Does it help
> in any way?

It doesn't. :( It fails in the same way. Attached testsuite.log.


Jordi
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