Bug#770744: javamail: FTBFS under pbuilder with USENETWORK=no: Test failure

tony mancill tmancill at debian.org
Sun Nov 23 21:20:15 UTC 2014


On 11/23/2014 11:02 AM, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Source: javamail
> Version: 1.5.2-3
> Severity: important

[snip]

> Failed tests:   test(com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPWriteTimeoutTest): No exception

I have mixed feelings about these sorts of failures. I understand the
need to build in a non-networked environment, but it is also unrealistic
to expect that networking software not contain unit tests that exercise
networking.  Disabling such tests is potentially a disservice to our
users; we're no longer testing as much as we could during a build.

I think eventually we're going to have to have a better way to
differentiate between what a package needs during its build phase vs.
its test phase, but that's a discussion for after the jessie release.

Emmanuel, any concerns with an upload to disable this test?  BTW,
there's a good (and expansive) thread on a related topic here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753944

Thank you,
tony

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