[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#986256: simka: flaky amd64 autopkgtest: regularly times out after 2:47 h

[Nilesh Patra]

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 20:53:00 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
 
> Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, I looked into
> the history of your autopkgtest [1] and I noticed version 1.5.3-2 fails
> regularly on amd64, while sporadically a rerun passes. I copied some of
> the output at the bottom of this report. It hits the autopkgtest time
> out after 2hours and 47 minutes. Successful runs pass in less than a minute.
> 
> 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,
> are causing people unrelated to your package to spend time on these
> tests.

That makes sense  - do you think marking this test as flaky can be
solution?

Nilesh
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