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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Guix Devel , 39637@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail (rsa verify failed) header.d=famulari.name header.s=mesmtp header.b=NnGM3L4x; dkim=fail (rsa verify failed) header.d=messagingengine.com header.s=fm3 header.b=HA2v4M09; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -0.01 X-TUID: uKLbNhsix92x On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 06:06:44PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: > It seems like you got further in understanding this than I did. Given > that this seems like a test failure, and I don't think there's anything > to suggest that the actual functionality doesn't work, the course of > action I see here is to disable either the failing tests, or running the > test suite entirely. Not having looked into it closely, I think that, in general, test failures do indicate that actual functionality is broken. Of course it's a different story in many cases since the Guix build environment is so unusual.