Bug#841662: libserver-starter-perl: test suite sometimes times out

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:44:45 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:

> Non-deterministic FTBFS is a FTBFS IMHO and thus warrants RC severity.

Ah, that discussion again :)

> If it helps, the Reproducible Builds framework is seeing this:
>  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/libserver-starter-perl.html

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/libserver-starter-perl.html
shows 71 tests for 0.32-1, with 7 FTBFS (9.86%)

https://ci.debian.net/packages/libs/libserver-starter-perl/unstable/amd64/
has 109 records for 0.32-1, with 14 fails (12.85%).

https://ci.debian.net/packages/libs/libserver-starter-perl/unstable/arm64/
has 9 tests for 0.32-1 with 0 fails (0%).


Anyway, those numbers are JFTR and out of curiosity. I'm not going to
engage in severity pingpong, but I'd like to note that intermittent
build failures used to be 'important' for a long time until recently
a few people started to treat them as 'serious'.


And now let's have a look what's actually going on with these tests ...


Cheers,
gregor

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