Public bug reported: Due to a circular build dependency (phpunit dependency chain), php- parser is pulled during its own package build time.
Since php packages ship autoloaders that load the dependencies for a given package when a package is loaded, the installed version of php- parser is loaded when the system's phpunit is called. This means that, when running the php-parser package test suite during build time, we are actually testing the installed version (or the previous version) of the package, and not the one being built. This is mostly pointless and will trigger test errors when bug fixes include regression tests. Below you will find a complete explanation of the issue as discussed in #debian-php in IRC. For now, let's skip running the test suite for this package. Let's also keep this bug open since we should find an actual solution for the issue (and I also understand several other packages are affected by the same problem). 20:55 < athos> hey taffit ! I took some time to understand what was going on with https://tracker.debian.org/news/1511003/accepted-php-parser-502-2-source-into-unstable/ 20:56 < athos> I suppose I get it now (correct me if I am wrong)! There are 3 reverse dependencies pulling php-parser back (circular b-dependencies) 20:56 < athos> they are all phpunit dependencies 20:57 < athos> SebastianBergmann/{Complexity,LinesOfCode,CodeCoverage} 20:58 < athos> although we are getting the local php-parser in the path in d/rules (ln -s lib/PhpParser .) 20:59 < athos> the debian installed autoloaders will end up pulling the installed version of the package anyways 20:59 < athos> (the package being tested, in this case, php-parser) 21:02 < athos> This is the first occurence of the issue I have seen, but now I am wondering if this is the case for anything in the phpunit dependency tree 21:05 < athos> if it is, so, for those packges, we are actually testing the previous version of the package each time we upload them and sometimes tests will break (that is the point of unit tests!) and that is why we (you) do the binary package upload before pushing the sources 21:09 < athos> I wonder if it makes sense to run the tests during build time for these packages at all. 21:19 < athos> But more importantly, I wonder how we could improve the situation so we can ensure the package being built is loaded instead of the installed one in those situations ** Affects: php-parser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2059173 Title: FTBFS: build time test error due to circular build dependency To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-parser/+bug/2059173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
