Bug#841319: notmuch: testsuite fails with TERM=unknown

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi David

>Use "make V=1" to print test headings and PASSing results.
>INFO: using 2 minute timeout for tests
>FATAL: ./T160-json.sh: interrupted by signal 15
>
>Looks like one of the invokations of emacs hangs when TERM=unknown


yes, the same in Ubuntu

>Hopefully we can fix this upstream; it's not a Debian specific issue.


thanks for confirming this, "much" appreciated :)

>It looks like a snapshot version of gdb in yakkety, so I'm reluctant to
>invest much effort into it. In particular 7.12 is already released upstream.

>

now Ubuntu has gdb 7.12, I asked Steve to re-enable armhf testsuite, to
see how it goes

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb/7.12-0ubuntu1

>A nicer way to skip only those tests that are broken with that>particular version of gdb is is drop the build depends on gdb for armhf.
>We already do this in debian for a variety of architectures.


this makes really easier to keep the patch minimal, thanks!

>In the not-implausible case that gdb 7.12 also causes problems for the
>test suite on armhf, I'll disable those tests there (unless they are

>fixable, of course).

thanks in advance for the great help!

Gianfranco