Bug#720271: Hash randomization test failures

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 06:03:45PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 07:10:46PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Also, at the risk of stating the obvious: I don't think we can tell
> > whether a build failure is caused by functional breakage or just test
> > suite fragility without looking at the code, right? The code could
> > actually be relying on the old hash behaviour, and that could cause very
> > similar sporadic test suite failures.
> 
> Yes, absolutely. From the packages I've looked at it's generally fairly
> obvious if the breakage is caused by assumptions in the test suite, though,
> as opposed to in the functional code.
> 
> > > #711428 libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl
> > > #711436 libdbix-abstract-perl
> > > #711444 libgraph-readwrite-perl
> > > #711446 libgraph-writer-graphviz-perl
> > > #711604 libmime-lite-html-perl
> > > #711614 libscriptalicious-perl
> > > #711615 libsearch-estraier-perl
> > > #720018 libhtml-wikiconverter-moinmoin-perl
> > > #720271 libnet-jabber-perl

So this package needs to be checked to see whether the test failures
are definitely random, and that the random breakage is purely in the test
suite. If so, the severity of this bug can be downgraded to important.

Dominic.