Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3] groff: Upgrade 1.24.2 -> 1.25.0

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Tue Nov 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM CET, Jaipaul Cheernam wrote:
> - Drop builddep.patch as fix is part of release
> - Drop 0001-gropdf-use-SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH-for-reproducible-builds.patch;
>   fixed upstream (Savannah #68136, released in 1.24.1). gropdf's SubTag()
>   no longer uses rand(), so the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH srand() seed is obsolete.
> - Refresh exisitng patches
> - Fix cross-compilation of man pages by using native soelim and stripping build paths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>
> ---

Hi Jaipaul,

Thanks for the v3. This is a bit better now, but we have a failing
selftest:

2026-11-10 16:07:36,082 - oe-selftest - INFO - imagefeatures.ImageFeatures.test_mandb (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-11-10 16:07:36,083 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
2026-11-10 16:07:36,083 - oe-selftest - INFO - 7: 27/51 314/791 (1880.17s) (0 failed) (imagefeatures.ImageFeatures.test_mandb)
2026-11-10 16:07:36,086 - oe-selftest - INFO - testtools.testresult.real._StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py", line 334, in test_mandb
    self.assertIn("introduction to user commands", output)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/unittest/case.py", line 1192, in assertIn
    self.fail(self._formatMessage(msg, standardMsg))
    ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/unittest/case.py", line 750, in fail
    raise self.failureException(msg)
AssertionError: 'introduction to user commands' not found in ''


https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/5238
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/5048

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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