[Python-modules-team] Bug#751343: python-tornado: FTBFS on mips due to test failure

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 20/06/14 12:37, Dejan Latinovic wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Scott,
> 
> It seams that this failure
> is related to board performance,
> since this test failed three times but always on corelli (Cavium).
> 
> I was not able to reproduce this test failure on my local boards,
> aside from decreasing time limit below 1.0.
> 
> To resolve this issue we could increase time limit to 2.0 or 1.6,
> since time of test_multi_performance execution on corelli
> is between 1.4046919345855713 and 1.5510458946228027,
> at least according to existing build logs.
> 
> The other solution could be to blacklist python-tornado
> on corelli.

I've given it back and it has failed on lucatelli. Having a 1s timeout may make
sense on some architectures, but not all, particularly when the buildd is
building other packages in parallel. So I'd say increasing the timeout to at
least 2s (or more) would be the preferred approach.

Regards,
Emilio