Bug#680473: dep8 test failed with message on stderr

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Package: tabix
Version: 0.2.6-1


autopkgtest of tabix [1] currently fails with:
"""
adt-run: trace: & dsc0t-with-example-data: - - - - - - - - - - results
- - - - - - - - - -
dsc0t-with-example-data FAIL status: 0, stderr: [tabix] The file type
not recognise...
adt-run: trace: & dsc0t-with-example-data: - - - - - - - - - - stderr -
- - - - - - - - -
[tabix] The file type not recognised and -p not given, using the preset
[gff].
adt-run: trace: & dsc0t-with-example-data:
----------------------------------------]
"""


This is because the warning is written to stderr while per specification
of DEP8 it should be written to stdout.

Excerpt from from DEP8 specification [2]
"""
Each test program should, on success, exit with status 0 and print
nothing to stderr; if a test exits nonzero, or prints to stderr, it is
considered to have failed.
"""

The dep8 test should be updated either to use the option -p of tabix to
fix the warning/error or redirect stderr to stdout and exit with an
appropriate exit code if the message is expected.

[1]
https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Quantal/view/AutoPkg%20Test/job/quantal-adt-tabix/3/ARCH=amd64,label=albali/artifact/results/log/*view*/
[2]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD:

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[Charles Plessy]

tag 680473 pending
thanks

Le Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:39:08AM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Lallement a écrit :
>
> The dep8 test should be updated either to use the option -p of tabix
> to fix the warning/error or redirect stderr to stdout and exit with
> an appropriate exit code if the message is expected.

Dear Jean-Baptiste,

thanks for the detailed report. I committed the correction in the source
package's Git repository. Tabix releases are infrequent so it may take time
before the bug is really closed. If you need to get this done before the next
upstream release, please let me know.

Have a nice week-end,

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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan