[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#915207: gnudatalanguage: autopkgtests fail: test_bug_n000720, test_idlneturl, test_point_lun, test_save_restore, test_zip

[Ole Streicher]

Oops, I am deeply sorry that I have sent this under the wrong email
address. Especially sorry to you, Gilles. I have no idea how this
happened (Thunderbird with virtual_identity; I probably mixed up
something there), and it was not intentional.

Best

Ole

> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> On 03.12.18 00:15, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:> Unfortunately the
> autopkgtests for 0.9.9-1 still fail [0], and since> it's blocking the
> migration of hdf5 it makes the package unsuitable for> release
> justifying the RC severity [1].
> Sorry, but I don't see this: gdl does not *break* hdf5 ("break" means
> IMO that a package that worked before does not work anymore -- but hdf5
> still works nicely, right?), and it also does not block the transition.
> 
> As far as I know, CI tests are currently setup in a non-blocking way.
> And when I look into the maintainer page of hdf5, it says
> 
> "Required age increased by 30 days because of autopkgtest".
> 
> This is not a block, this is just a delay. There never was a statement
> that failing CI tests are RC (or would become so before buster).
> 
> So, you you please be a bit more explicit how the RC policy applies here?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Ole
>