Bug 948340 – app-arch/dpkg-1.21.15-r3 fails tests: 3: dpkg-deb .deb format 2.x FAILED (deb-format.at:497)

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-18 10:39:48 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: app-arch/dpkg-1.21.15-r3 fails tests.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: tinderbox-stable)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0015

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-18 10:39:50 UTC]

Created attachment 916968 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-18 10:39:50 UTC]

Created attachment 916969 [details]
1-testsuite.log

1-testsuite.log

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-18 10:39:52 UTC]

Created attachment 916970 [details]
2-testsuite.log

2-testsuite.log

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2025-01-18 10:39:52 UTC]

Error(s) that match a know pattern in addition to what has been reported in the summary:


  3: dpkg-deb .deb format 2.x                        FAILED (deb-format.at:497)
ERROR: All 68 tests were run,

[Comment 5 Sam James 2025-01-18 16:12:04 UTC]

```
--- -	2025-01-18 03:53:07.082435324 +0000
+++ /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/dpkg-1.21.15-r3/work/dpkg-1.21.15/src/at/testsuite.dir/at-groups/3/stdout	2025-01-18 03:53:07.078953772 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 control.tar.xz
 data.tar.gz
  new Debian package, version 2.0.
- size 682 bytes: control archive=336 bytes.
+ size 690 bytes: control archive=344 bytes.
      193 bytes,     7 lines      control
  Package: pkg-deb-format
  Version: 0.0-1
3. deb-format.at:162: 3. dpkg-deb .deb format 2.x (deb-format.at:162): FAILED (deb-format.at:497)
```

Likely xz version. We'll stable new dpkg soon.