[pkg-php-pear] Bug#775625: symfony: FTBFS in jessie: Tests failures

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 19/01/15 at 13:51 +0100, Daniel Beyer wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:33:40 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > On 18/01/15 at 23:12 +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> > > Control: tag -1 unreproducible
> > > 
> > > A timeout issue like this is often sensitive to the machine used and I cannot 
> > > reproduce this FTBFS here -- the test suite also took less than half the time 
> > > to run on this old laptop cf the EC2 instance. The three timeout values could 
> > > be increased if necessary but that hardly seems worth it.
> > 
> 
> It seems to be the same issue as it is with the failing DEP-8 tests on
> ci.debian.net [1]. I'm unable to reproduce this myself, but taking a
> closer look to AbstractProcessTest::testStartAfterATimeout(), the test
> itself is pretty useless:
> 
> 
> First: The command that is executed actually is this one:
> # php -r "$n = 1000; while ($n--) {echo ''; usleep(1000); }" 
> 
> This does not wait ~1s, but produces the following error:
> PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '=' in Command line code on line 1

That's only because you did not escape $n :-)

Lucas