[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1077929: praat: flaky autopkgtest on several architectures: test_Formant_slopes.praat times out

[Paul Gevers]

Source: praat
Version: 6.4.12+dfsg-3
Severity: serious
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: flaky

Dear maintainer(s),

I looked at the results of the autopkgtest of your package because it 
showed up on the gcc-14 migration tracker. I noticed that it regularly 
fails on armel and armhf, but I've seen the same failure at least once 
on i386 too. See link below. When the test passes, it immediately 
continues with output. When it times out, nothing in the log until 
autopkgtest aborts the test.

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.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you need help and some more information
from our infrastructure.

Paul

https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/praat/testing/i386/47876838/
https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/praat/testing/armel/49952727/

2701s ### executing test_Formant_slopes.praat:
2701s test_Formant_slopes.praat
10123s autopkgtest [17:56:28]: ERROR: timed out
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