[pkg-go] Bug#907714: golang-x-text: FTBFS in buster/sid (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 03:31:00PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> (resend, forget to cc bts)
> 
> That's the one failed test,
> 
> --- FAIL: TestCountMallocs (0.00s)
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Sprintf(""): got 3 allocs, want <=0
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Sprintf("xxx"): got 4 allocs, want <=1
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Sprintf("%x"): got 5 allocs, want <=2
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Sprintf("%s"): got 5 allocs, want <=2
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Sprintf("%x %x"): got 5 allocs, want <=3
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Sprintf("%g"): got 7 allocs, want <=2
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Fprintf(buf, "%s"): got 4 allocs, want <=1
>         fmt_test.go:1443: Fprintf(buf, "%x %x %x"): got 4 allocs, want <=0
> 
> 
> It happens when you run tests with 1 process(GOMAXPROCS=1)
> 
> The upstream bug is https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23000
> 
> This test is to ensure max malloc times used, so I don't think the test
> is so important to kick packages out of testing.
> 
> Can we skip this test?

If you ask me, yes, that's definitely what I would do. I expect
packages to be buildable on any Debian setup on which Debian itself
may be installed, provided there is enough RAM and hard disk.

Thanks.