[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#981874: trinityrnaseq: flaky autopkgtest

[Michael R. Crusoe]

Control: severity -1 important

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:01:37 +0100 Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:

 > Dear maintainer(s),
 >
 > Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, I looked into
 > the history of your autopkgtest [1] on amd64 and arm64 (because it is
 > blocking perl) and I noticed it fails regularly, while a rerun passes. I
 > copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. The last warning
 > has a different number every time.
 >
 > 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.
 >
 > Please do get in touch if we need to dive into this together. Or if you
 > want to discuss this issue. I noticed that all the failed runs I checked
 > were done on the same worker. Could the problem be a timing issue? (The
 > worker has a spinning disk and is slower than our other workers).

Trinityrnaseq has a very complicated testsuite, and there are probably 
undocumented dependencies between steps.

Since the testsuite does pass often, and perl did migrate, I am reducing 
the severity of this issue.

Perhaps that worker needs to be retired.

-- 
Michael R. Crusoe


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