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

[Santiago Vila]

Version: 2.56.0-2

On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, Simon McVittie wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 at 12:22:03 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Looking at the first couple of failures, a segmentation fault in a
> test whose name mentions "async" seems like it might be the bug fixed
> in 2.56.0-2. That bug was a lack of thread safety, and GLib APIs like
> libsoup frequently use a worker thread to make a blocking operation
> asynchronous; in particular it was one of at least two root causes
> for ostree's tests intermittently failing.

I confirm that this bug seems fixed after building the package 100 times
today and not getting any failure (the previous failure rate was about
30% or 40%).

Therefore I'm closing this report.

Thanks a lot.