Bug#1103406: ogdi-dfsg: flaky autopkgtest on arm64

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 4/17/25 12:16 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> Removing the autopkgtest or excluding unreliable architectures will be needed instead. I don't really want to do either, but nuking the autopkgtest from the package resolves this class of issues forever.
> 
> Let's work together to improve the situation. I understand this is frustrating from your side, but autopkgtesting has been a great improvement for Debian release management so it would be sad if for this reason you would remove them.

Adding `Architecture: !arm64` to the control file sounds like the best solution to deal with unreliable infrastructure.

> To avoid having to do this on the package side, I (ci.d.n maintainer hat on) could add your package to the ci.d.n reject_list until we have a way to disable needs-internet testing per host and can direct tests that need it to hosts which support needs-internet [1]. We currently can only switch needs-internet per architecture and I consider that a too big hammer for arm64 (release team member hat on).

That doesn't sound like a good idea because then two people need to do work to re-enable arm64 again.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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