[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#954268: enigmail: autopkgtest times out after 2h47 or 5h35 if keyserver can't be reached

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: forwared 954268 https://admin.hostpoint.ch/pipermail/enigmail-users_enigmail.net/2020-April/005595.html

On Thu 2020-03-19 14:57:57 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> The worker fleet of ci.d.n doesn't have the reliable network we would
> wish for, but your package fails in an unpleasant way if a keyserver
> can't be reached. Can you please detect the issue and fail more
> gracefully, such that the test doesn't need to be killed by autopkgtest
> after 2:47 hours idle time because of the autopkgtest timeout?
>
> Paul
>
> https://ci.debian.net/packages/e/enigmail/testing/arm64/
>
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/arm64/e/enigmail/4384388/log.gz
>
> 2020-02-26 17:05:54.370 [DEBUG] enigmailCommon.jsm: dispatchEvent f=resizeDlg
> 2020-02-26 18:05:54.188 [DEBUG] keyRefreshService.jsm: Either no keyservers exist or the protocols specified are invalid. Will recheck in an hour.
> 2020-02-26 19:05:54.190 [DEBUG] keyRefreshService.jsm: Either no keyservers exist or the protocols specified are invalid. Will recheck in an hour.

Thanks for this report!  I'm not sure how to fix this properly, since
this is part of the upstream test suite :/ I've mentioned it to upstream
to see whether they have any suggestions for how to deal with this more
gracefully.

   --dkg
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