Bug#939793: plplot breaks coyote autopkgtest: times out

[Paul Gevers]

Source: plplot, coyote
Control: found -1 plplot/5.15.0+dfsg-3
Control: found -1 coyote/2019.02.25-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid bullseye
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update timeout

Dear maintainers,

With a recent upload of plplot the autopkgtest of coyote fails in
testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of plplot
from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In
tabular form:
                       pass            fail
plplot                 from testing    5.15.0+dfsg-3
coyote                 from testing    2019.02.25-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report, but the
problem may be an infinite loop as the test times out now in the
autopkgtest framework after 2:27 hours, where it used to run under one
minute.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of plplot to testing
[1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report against
both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the
bug to the right package?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=plplot

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/c/coyote/2906835/log.gz


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