[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#1074781: request-tracker5/4: autopkgtests don't work directly with new MariaDB 11.4

[Paul Gevers]

Control: tags -1 serious

Hi,

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:10:42 +1200 Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:
> The issue isn't related to the mariadb package changing (the tests use
> SQLite), but rather that occasionally some of the tests fail. Looking at the
> failing tests in https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/request-tracker5 across
> various different triggers, they appear to be the same (or a similar) set of
> tests. But they fail intermittently.
This happens often enough on some architectures on ci.d.n that the 
Release Team considers this RC. Because the unstable-to-testing 
migration software now blocks on regressions in testing, flaky tests, 
i.e. tests that flip between passing and failing without changes to the 
list of installed packages, are causing people unrelated to your package 
to spend time on these tests. Just like Otto did.

Paul

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