Bug#799718: libthread-pool-perl: nondeterministic test failure in t/Pool01.t

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:35:33PM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> severity 799718 serious
> thanks
> 
> > This package failed to build in the reproducible.debian.net CI setup,
> > and I can reproduce this locally by running the test in a loop while
> > loading the host. Apparently there's a race condition in the test suite.
> 
> Given that it makes the package unreliably build from source, this warrants an RC severity.

While I'm not going to start a severity war (and agree that the package
should be fixed), this is not the traditional interpretation. FTBFS bugs
have been routinely downgraded to 'important' in the past when the build
failures were nondeterministic and the build succeeded part of the time.

My understanding is that the baseline requirement from the release team
is that 'buildds need to be able to build the packages'.

It may be that the awesome continuous integration that reproducible.d.n
is doing has changed this picture and we should start treating all such
bugs as release critical, but discussing that first with the release
team and/or on the debian-devel list would be appropriate IMHO.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org