[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#1051957: mailman3: autopkgtest is might be flaky at times

[Alexandre Detiste]

Source: mailman3
Version: 3.3.8-3.1
Severity: minor

Hi,

I had to retry a test two times to unblock systemd-cron migration.

The test alway fail at the very last step.


Example failure:
""""""""""""""""

>483s Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi
>484s Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.37-7) ...
>497s autopkgtest [06:49:27]: test mailman3-api: -----------------------]
>498s autopkgtest [06:49:28]: test mailman3-api:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
>498s mailman3-api         FAIL non-zero exit status 7

Example OK:
"""""""""""

>489s Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi....
>490s Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.37-7) ...
>504s {"mailman_version": "GNU Mailman 3.3.8 (Tom Sawyer)",
       "python_version": "3.11.5 (main, Aug 29 2023, 15:31:31) [GCC 13.2.0]",
       "api_version": "3.1",
       "self_link": "http://localhost:8001/3.1/system/versions",
       "http_etag": "\"2c68f151bb20bd0ba4086e11e7f98f20a28fdceb\""}
      autopkgtest [19:03:55]: test mailman3-api: -----------------------]
>504s autopkgtest [19:03:55]: test mailman3-api:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
>504s mailman3-api         PASS



Can you please have a look ?




The CI apt resolver will pick Vixie cron as prefered
cron-daemon; so these tests are totaly pointless
from systemd-cron side anyway...
but that would be a bug for the CI system.

> 31s The following additional packages will be installed:
> 31s   cron cron-daemon-common




https://ci.debian.net/packages/m/mailman3/testing/i386/

 3.3.8-3.1	2023-09-14 19:04:02 UTC	systemd-cron/2.1.3-1
 src:systemd-cron from unstable
 8m 32s	 pass		britney	test log (53 KB)	artifacts (3.54 KB)

 3.3.8-3.1	2023-09-14 06:49:34 UTC	systemd-cron/2.1.3-1
 src:systemd-cron from unstable
 8m 24s	 fail		britney	test log (51.8 KB)	artifacts (3.56 KB)

 3.3.8-3.1	2023-09-13 15:29:34 UTC	systemd-cron/2.1.3-1
 src:systemd-cron from unstable
 8m 40s	 fail		britney	test log (52.5 KB)	artifacts (3.56 KB)

 3.3.8-3.1	2023-09-11 15:51:54 UTC	systemd-cron/2.1.2-1
 src:systemd-cron from unstable
 8m 41s	 pass		britney	test log (53.2 KB)	artifacts (3.55 KB





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-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)