Bug#710696: severity of 710696 is serious, because it's a FTBFS bug

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.09.2016 um 12:12 schrieb Santiago Vila:

> So: Can we already disable the tests that fail? Do you want help to
> reproduce this for yourself? Maybe that would unblock this issue.
> I could give you access to a machine in which this fails more than 50%
> of the time. Would you agree to make this serious if you can verify
> both the fact that it fails randomly (with such a high probability)
> and the fact that my machine is not "misconfigured" or anything like
> that?

I don't see what we would gain by disabling the failing tests.
They are there to catch regressions after all. So this would be a step
backwards.

If your main objective is to build the package on your own system, you
can omit the test-suite by setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck (not su

Of course, the better option would be if you can investigate why it
fails on your particular setup. This would be very much appreciated.
I'm not saying, that there isn't a race somewhere. The point is that
disabling is not the answer and it's not necessary.



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