[DRE-maint] Bug#840664: ruby-faker: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:ruby-faker
Version: 1.5.0-1
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
but it failed.

The package builds ok, but then the tests fail randomly, because they
are not designed to never fail (as they should).

At least the following tests seem to be wrongly designed:

  => 14:     assert Faker::Internet.email.match(/.+@[^.].+\.\w+/)
  => 70:         assert period_range.include?(result.hour.to_i), "\"#{result.hour}\" expected to be included in Faker::Time::TIME_RANGES[:#{period}] range"

so I suggest that they are just disabled.

I'm attaching 9 different build logs. Sorry, I can't provide a way to
"reproduce" this because the failures are random, but if you look at
the build logs and look at the code, maybe you could tell why they
fail without having to build this package yourself a lot of times.

Thanks.
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