Re: For your amusement: Bug#743238: taskwarrior: FTBFS on the last day of the month

Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
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* Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, 2014-04-02, 12:41:
>https://bugs.debian.org/743238 contains IMHO a hilarious reason for a 
>FTBFS:
>
>----- Forwarded message from Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> -----
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:20:57 +0200
>From: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected], James Dietrich <[email protected]>
>Subject: Bug#743238: taskwarrior: FTBFS on Wheezy
>
>Control: severity -1 serious
>Control: retitle -1 taskwarrior: FTBFS on the last day of the month: test/count.t fails

I laughed (bitterly :P) a bit too, but actually it's not very surprising 
that software that manipulates dates has a date-dependent bug.

Here are some other examples:
https://bugs.debian.org/555931 FTBFS in November.
https://bugs.debian.org/629699 FTBFS... sometimes.

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Jakub Wilk
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