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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Test cases fail on Debian/Ubuntu","articleBody":"I tried to update the Debian package of libgit2, but some test cases fail on Debian testing:\r\n\r\n```\r\n  1) Failure:\r\ncore::features::0 [/\u003c\u003cPKGBUILDDIR\u003e\u003e/tests/core/features.c:20]\r\n  Expression is not true: (caps \u0026 GIT_FEATURE_HTTPS) != 0\r\n\r\n  2) Failure:\r\nrepo::discover::discovering_repository_with_alternative_gitdir_succeeds [/\u003c\u003cPKGBUILDDIR\u003e\u003e/tests/repo/discover.c:36]\r\n  Function call failed: (git_repository_discover(\u0026found_path, start_path, 0, ceiling_dirs))\r\n  error -3 - could not find repository from 'temprepo/discover.git/alternate_sub_repo/sub'\r\n\r\n  3) Failure:\r\nrepo::discover::ceiling_should_not_affect_gitdir_redirection [/\u003c\u003cPKGBUILDDIR\u003e\u003e/tests/repo/discover.c:36]\r\n  Function call failed: (git_repository_discover(\u0026found_path, start_path, 0, ceiling_dirs))\r\n  error -3 - could not find repository from 'temprepo/discover.git/alternate_sub_repo/sub'\r\n\r\n  4) Failure:\r\nrepo::discover::discovery_starting_at_file_succeeds [/\u003c\u003cPKGBUILDDIR\u003e\u003e/tests/repo/discover.c:36]\r\n  Function call failed: (git_repository_discover(\u0026found_path, start_path, 0, ceiling_dirs))\r\n  error -3 - could not find repository from 'temprepo/discover.git/sub_repo/file'\r\n\r\n  5) Failure:\r\nrepo::open::force_bare [/\u003c\u003cPKGBUILDDIR\u003e\u003e/tests/repo/open.c:401]\r\n  Function call failed: (git_repository_open_ext( \u0026barerepo, \"alternate/subdir/sub2\", GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_BARE, ((void *)0)))\r\n  error -3 - could not find repository from 'alternate/subdir/sub2'\r\n```\r\n\r\nFailure 2 to 5 can be only seen when running the tests inside sbuild (which uses schroot and overlay directories in my case).\r\n\r\n### Reproduction steps\r\n\r\n1. Download the packaging from Debian and extract it into the directory `debian` in your libgit2 directory:\r\nhttp://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libg/libgit2/libgit2_0.24.5-1.debian.tar.xz\r\n2. run `dpkg-buildpackage -b` (or better use sbuild)\r\n\r\n### Version of libgit2 (release number or SHA1)\r\n\r\nVersion 0.25.1 and current head (caf7a7a6b14b3b2f200f88f2f8d7a18ca10fd3ac) are affected.\r\n\r\n### Operating system(s) tested\r\n\r\nDebian testing and Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bdrung","@type":"Person","name":"bdrung"},"datePublished":"2017-03-31T15:12:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/4186/libgit2/issues/4186"}