[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

[Graham Inggs]

Hi

This situation seems to get worse with each new version of nodejs.

In Ubuntu, where autopkgtests are run for every release architecture,
node-liftoff failed on armhf [1] and arm64 [2] since the upload of
nodejs 8.9.3.

We resorted to increasing the timeout from 5000 to 10000 in
debian/rules and debian/tests/control to allow nodejs to migrate.

Chris, you wrote "...the test would still be unreliable whatever value
you choose", can you propose something other than increasing the
timeout?

Regards
Graham


[1] http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/node-liftoff/bionic/armhf
[2] http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/node-liftoff/bionic/arm64