[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#884475: clonalorigin: FTBFS on alpha: tests time out

[Andreas Tille]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi Aaron,

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:42:21PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > Are you sure that a the fact that an unreleased architecture that is
> > known to be *slow* has trouble finishing a test that also takes a while
> > on faster architectures rectifies a bug severity important?  I'd say
> > give this slow machine a bit more time.  Its *totally* useless to run
> > clonalorigin on this outdated architecture and I'm tempted to set this
> > wontfix.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I'd missed that this test was simply intensive -- the timeout
> is normally pretty generous.  However, since it's specifically an
> *inactivity* timeout, you should be able to avoid hitting it by having
> the test print progress indicators every so often.  Still not a
> priority, to be sure, but likely not too difficult.

As much as I appreciate your effort, but the only thing I would do is
explicitly excluding alpha from the list of architectures.  This program
is orphaned upstream (but used).  I see no point at all to spent my time
in hardware that makes no sense at all with this program.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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