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

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> [2024-08-04 20:32]:

> 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

Could you please confirm whether the problem persists in version 
6.4.23+dfsg-1 of the package?

Best,

Rafael Laboissière