Subject: bug#27063: make check FAIL for diffutils-3.6

From: Michael Felt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 05:23:53 +0300

PASS: filename-quoting
FAIL: colors
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Testsuite summary for GNU diffutils 3.6
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# TOTAL: 20
# PASS:  18
# SKIP:  1
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to [email-masked]

SKIP: brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies
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brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies: skipped test: no /proc/cmdline file
SKIP brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies (exit status: 77)

FAIL: colors
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--- exp 2017-05-25 02:17:39 +0000
+++ out 2017-05-25 02:17:39 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-^[[1m--- a     1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
-+++ b  1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+^[[1m--- a     1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
++++ b  1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
  ^[[0m^[[36m@@ -1 +1 @@^[[0m
  ^[[31m-a^[[0m
  ^[[32m+b^[[0m
--- exp 2017-05-25 02:17:39 +0000
+++ out 2017-05-25 02:17:39 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-^[[33m--- a    1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
-+++ b  1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+^[[33m--- a    1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
++++ b  1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
  ^[[0m^[[36m@@ -1 +1 @@^[[0m
  ^[[35m-a^[[0m
  ^[[34m+b^[[0m
printf: bad conversion
printf: bad conversion
rm: Directory /data/prj/gnu/diffutils-3.6/tests/gt-colors.Ehyg is not empty.
FAIL colors (exit status: 1)

Note: I run this on a NFS server, and I have seen tests FAIL due to 
something "strange" with NFS and deletion.