Bug#995020: macaulay2: autopkgtest regression and flaky test: SIGSEGV

[Torrance, Douglas]

On Sat 25 Sep 2021 03:32:13 PM EDT, Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Torrance,
>
> On 25-09-2021 04:56, Torrance, Douglas wrote:
>> There's a problem though -- this macaulay2 autopkgtest regression is now
>> preventing ntl from migrating to testing! [1]  This seems like a chicken
>> and
>> egg situation -- we need it to migrate for the tests to pass, but we need
>> the tests to pass for it to migrate...
>
> I must confess that transitions aren't perfectly handled by the
> migration software (britney) of the release team yet. britney tries to
> figure which packages should come from unstable and adds them as pinned
> packages, but hasn't any special notion of transitions.
>
>> Is there a good solution for this?
>
> Not yet.
>
>> One very hacky idea would be to upload
>> a new macaulay2 package with a very basic autopkgtest that's guaranteed to
>> pass for the time being until everything migrates.  Is there a better
>> solution?
>
> Yes:
> * macaulay2 could (temporarily) add *versioned* test dependencies on
> libsingular4m1 and libflint-2.8.0 (then autopkgtest will do the right
> thing).
> * macaulay2 could add *versioned* dependencies on libsingular4m1 and
> libflint-2.8.0
> * I could manually trigger the test with the combination.
>
> Let's pick the last option for now and see if it works.

That worked!  The autopkgtests were all successful, and ntl has migrated to
testing [1] (along with the flint and factory binNMU's).

I'll go ahead and close this bug.  Thanks for all of your help!

Doug

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1261285/ntl-1151-1-migrated-to-testing/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 866 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-science-maintainers/attachments/20210926/0fd997f6/attachment-0001.sig>