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

Christoph Berg myon at debian.org
Wed Sep 11 13:37:33 BST 2024


Re: Paul Gevers
> 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.

Fwiw, I stumbled over this last week when it was blocking
postgresql-17, and now again for blocking postgresql-common.

If you cannot fix the tests reliably, mark them as "flaky".

Thanks,
Christoph



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