Bug#710696: libsoup2.4: FTBFS with test failures

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> Source: libsoup2.4
> Version: 2.42.2-4
> Tags: jessie sid
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> libsoup2.4 FTBFS on several architectures with test failures; [...]

Still the case three years later: FTBFS randomly with test failures.

I've built this package one hundred times yesterday and it failed 32 times.
I've put all logs here (both successful and failed ones) for everybody to see:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/libsoup2.4/

The builds were all made on single-CPU virtual machines. Maybe this
may affect the statistics, but in any case, having two CPUs is still
not part of the build-essential definition.

Not Cc:ing the maintainer, because he said he does not care anymore.

Cc:ing the submitter, who also happen to be a Release Manager.
I wish we would not lower our standards to allow packages like
this one to FTBFS as much as they want as a normal thing.

Would be possible to have this as both "serious" and "stretch-ignore"
instead of "important"?

Cc:ing also Simon McVittie: I have not tested version 2.56.0-2 yet,
sorry. Is it likely or possible that the changes in such version make
the failing tests I experience to disappear, or are they unrelated?

Thanks.