[Bug 2125058] [NEW] the autopkgtest are failing with rust-coreutils (configure: error: date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC)

[Sebastien Bacher]

Public bug reported:

The current questing-proposed migration report states

 kronosnet blocking build-essential (12.12ubuntu1 to 12.12ubuntu2) for
13 days

    Regressions
        kronosnet/1.31-1ubuntu1: amd64 (log, history), arm64 (log, history), armhf (log, history), ppc64el (log, history), s390x (log, history)

Log example
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-questing/questing/amd64/k/kronosnet/20250917_144652_6b737@/log.gz

The error seems to be

123s checking for BSD date... configure: error: date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC
123s no
123s checking for date type... unknown

The new build-essential basically forces pull in rust-coreutils, so
probably an issue with those and the tests will get red for any trigger
once the autopkgtest images are refreshed to do gnu->uutils

** Affects: kronosnet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: rust-coreutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: update-excuse

** Summary changed:

- the autopkgtest are failing with rust-coreutils
+ the autopkgtest are failing with rust-coreutils (configure: error: date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC)

** Tags added: update-excuse

** Also affects: rust-coreutils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  the autopkgtest are failing with rust-coreutils (configure: error:
  date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC)

Status in kronosnet package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The current questing-proposed migration report states

   kronosnet blocking build-essential (12.12ubuntu1 to 12.12ubuntu2) for
  13 days

      Regressions
          kronosnet/1.31-1ubuntu1: amd64 (log, history), arm64 (log, history), armhf (log, history), ppc64el (log, history), s390x (log, history)

  Log example
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-questing/questing/amd64/k/kronosnet/20250917_144652_6b737@/log.gz

  The error seems to be

  123s checking for BSD date... configure: error: date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC
  123s no
  123s checking for date type... unknown

  The new build-essential basically forces pull in rust-coreutils, so
  probably an issue with those and the tests will get red for any
  trigger once the autopkgtest images are refreshed to do gnu->uutils

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