From 1f1996e6a5cc5203e0534dc26fe51b87832082aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 12:37:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: beets: Skip failing tests.
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* gnu/packages/music.scm (beets)[phases]{disable-failing-tests}: New phase.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
---
 gnu/packages/music.scm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm
index 1434af9788..6693f34037 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/music.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/music.scm
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Giacomo Leidi <goodoldpaul@autistici.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2020 Michael Rohleder <mike@rohleder.de>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -3159,6 +3160,13 @@ (define-public beets
     (arguments
      `(#:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         ;; Reported upstream: <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/3771>.
+         ;; Disable the faulty test as the fix is unclear.
+         (add-after 'unpack 'disable-failing-tests
+           (lambda _
+             (substitute* "test/test_mediafile.py"
+               (("def test_read_audio_properties") "def _test_read_audio_properties"))
+             #t))
          (add-after 'unpack 'set-HOME
            (lambda _
              (setenv "HOME" (string-append (getcwd) "/tmp"))