Bug#762420: perl: dist/Tie-File/t/29_downcopy undeterministic failure (on mips)

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perl
Version: 5.20.1-1

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:42:29PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 02:00:02PM +0000, Debian buildds wrote:
> >  * Source package: perl
> >  * Version: 5.20.1-1
> >  * Architecture: mips
> >  * State: failed
> >  * Suite: sid
> >  * Builder: lucatelli.debian.org
> >  * Build log: https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl&arch=mips&ver=5.20.1-1&stamp=1411307519&file=log
> 
>  dist/Tie-File/t/29_downcopy ................................... FAILED at test 179
> 
> There's an alarm(5) in that tests, which I suppose might be a problem
> on slow hosts.
> 
> FWIW it's been given back and is now building on corelli.
> I'm also rebuilding it on gabrielli to see if this is reproducible.

Both of those succeeded, so this is not deterministic.

Filing a bug, perhaps we should raise the timeout at least
if this happens again.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org