Bug#975007: src:xmds2: autopkgtest times out on ppc64el (and sometimes on amd64)

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> [2020-11-17 21:40]:

> Source: xmds2
> Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-4
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: timeout flaky
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> Your package has an autopkgtest, great! However, it fails due to timeout 
> on ppc64el (after 2:47 hours) and regularly on amd64 too. Can you please 
> investigate and fix the situation?
>
> To avoid needlessly stress our infrastructure, I'll block this 
> package on ppc64el until this bug is fixed.

Thanks for the heads up, Paul.

Since the xmds2 package has a huge amount of unit tests and since they 
involve numerical computation of complicated problems (partial 
differential equations), running the whole set of tests takes usually a 
lot of time.

The only way the timeout issue can be fixed is by preventing some test 
from being run.  I will take a look at this, as time permits.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière