[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#865552: libbpp-phyl FTBFS with test failures

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 09:43:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>...
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 09:02:30PM +0200, Julien Yann Dutheil wrote:
> > This is most strange indeed. The errors are all "time out" errors on unit
> > tests which take the longest time (several min or so). Looks like some
> > issues with the default value for the timeout setting in CTest... I would
> > suggest to simply skip the unit tests by running "cmake
> > -DBUILD_TESTING=FALSE ." .  Does this solve the problem?
> 
> Hmmm, this would most probably lead to successfully built packages but I
> would prefer spending some additional thoughts on this.  It would
> explain the issue why the package has built before but does not any more
> without any visible change on "weak" architectures.  I could imagine
> that after stretch release the run on the build servers increased and
> that possibly parallel builds are happening which lead to performance
> loss for single packages.
>...

No, a buildd never builds more than 1 package at a time.

Some of the weaker architectures currently have 100 packages
queued to be built and it can take a few days until a package
gets built, but during the build the situation stays the same.

> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.

cu
Adrian

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