[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#919588: Bug#919588: nodejs: FTBFS randomly

[Santiago Vila]

retitle 919588 nodejs: FTBFS randomly (parallel/test-net-listen-after-destroying-stdin fails)
thanks

Hi.

Today I built nodejs the standard way (i.e. without eatmydata) 26 times,
of which it failed 12 times. This makes the failure rate to be around
46%, too high for my taste.

For these builds I was using a mix of self-hosted KVM machines and
n1-standard-1 instances from GCE.

Failed build logs available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/nodejs/

Fortunately the (single) failing test was always the same, the one
I've just put in the bug title:

not ok 1208 parallel/test-net-listen-after-destroying-stdin

So I would definitely disable such test for buster.

Alternatively, if you feel brave enough to investigate and debug why
the test fails so much (and fix it the "proper" and "elegant" way),
I will gladly offer ssh access to an instance where this "randomness"
is reproducible (so to speak). If interested, please contact me
privately for details.

Thanks a lot.