test suite: Do not save non-world-readable artifacts

Save things to $AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS without preserving access
control information.

Works around #903680.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ae3e58d7f760bd8069a50466f93470aa6fab7cc2..663eca82b422d7733717bdcd3b7a304cae98fb6e 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+dgit (5.9+exp2) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * test suite: Save things to $AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS without
+    preserving access control information.  Works around #903680.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:43:11 +0100
+
 dgit (5.9+exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * test suite: Use  dch -r -D sid ''  not  dch -r sid.  Closes:#903441.

diff --git a/tests/lib b/tests/lib
index 87dd37617e7f6769a8eb42657e745ecf7af9b177..1ddfcea0fed19b3cdfc88fc63a057a3c1ae1d951 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/lib
+++ b/tests/lib
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ t-save-artifacts () {
        if [ x"$artifacts" = x ]; then return; fi
        if [ x"tmp" = x ]; then return; fi
        : '(((((((((( t-save-artifacts ))))))))))'
-       cp -a "$tmp"/. "$artifacts"/.
+       cp -dR --preserve=links,timestamps "$tmp"/. "$artifacts"/.
        cd "$artifacts"/.
        find . \( -name \*.tar -o -name \*.sample \) -print0 | \
                xargs -0r rm -v