[DRE-maint] Bug#836536: ruby-concurrent: FTBFS too much often (failed examples)

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:12:26AM +0530, Balasankar C wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:49:13 +0200 (CEST) Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> wrote:
> >   BTW: I think the "Randomized with seed xxx" above is a bad idea.
> > Maintainers often ask bug reporters for "a way to reproduce the error".
> > But if the build is based on random variables, this becomes an
> > impossible task. Please consider modifying the build system so that
> > those random things are always the same.
> 
> I believe I have fixed this in the latest upload, in which I specified the
> order to run the tests. I tried building it 5 times in a cowbuilder environment
> and didn't hit any failures. Please reopen the bug if this problem persists.

I think that in general 5 times is probably not enough. the last package
I fixed that failed randomly would fail 6% of the time (i.e. ~3 times
out of 50 attempts in my tests).
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