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

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Nilesh,

On 02-04-2021 13:40, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> 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?

No, because when a test times out, that restriction doesn't work. You'll
need to keep the test below 2:47, and as it normally takes less than a
minute, it may point at something seriously hanging.

Paul

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