Bug#880883: FTBFS on arm64: test suite times out (on arm-arm-04)

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 at 18:37:42 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> I gave it back again, and it again got picked by arm-arm-04. With the help from
> jcristau (as I don't have access to that machine) I determined that the build
> gets killed while running the closures test, which gets executed by is way too
> slow on that machine (it'd take around 200 minutes to complete it).

In 2.54.2-3 I've cut that test down to 1% of the usual repetitions on
arm64, which seems like enough to prove that this functionality does
basically work. The fact that it's far slower than on other CPUs is
still a bug, but hopefully one that can be downgraded to important.

    smcv