Bug#849136: gdk-pixbuf FTBFS on mips64el: pixbuf-randomly-modified test failures

[James Clarke]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 08:32:26AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Adrian Bunk]
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gdk-pixbuf&arch=mips64el&ver=2.36.2-1&stamp=1482373676
> [...]
> > ERROR: pixbuf-randomly-modified
>
> I tried reproducing this on eller.debia.org, but when I built it there the
> test was successful.  I tried again, and it built as it should now too.
>
> Is there some difference between the porterbox and the autobuilder that
> could be relevant?  If not, I guess the randomness part of the test someone
> affected the result. :(

It also FTBFS on sparc64 due to crashing in pixbuf-randomly-modified
(although with SIGSEGV instead)[0], but I couldn't reproduce it, even
using the same random seed as in the build log. I gave it back and it
rebuilt successfully (albeit on a different buildd). I suggest it is
given back on mips64el and the severity of this lowered (unless this
build also fails).

Regards,
James

[0] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gdk-pixbuf&arch=sparc64&ver=2.36.2-1&stamp=1482373648