[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#930448: Bug#930448: onioncircuits: autopkgtest seems to be unreliable

[Ulrike Uhlig]

Hi!

On 12.06.19 23:10, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: onioncircuits
> Version: 0.5-4
> Severity: important
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: flaky
> 
> The onioncircuits autopkgtest seems to fail occasionally, then succeed
> when retried. Because the unstable-to-testing migration software now
> blocks on regressions in testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip
> between passing and failing without changes to the list of installed
> packages, can be problematic for the release process. Please either fix
> the test to be more robust, or mark this particular test as "flaky" like
> <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mmdebstrap/commit/32e778ec02a9be341b9117f1b75b7859151a81ab>.

debian/changelog says

onioncircuits (0.5-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Make autopkgtest more resilient when circuits are missing.
    Closes: 909275
  * Remove flaky flag for autopkgtest for now.

 -- Sascha Steinbiss <satta at debian.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:21:55 +0100

But it lacks an explanation why the flaky flag was removed.

Cheers!
u.