[DRE-maint] Bug#853244: ruby-sshkit: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Control: severity -1 important

* Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> [170204 13:15]:
> Source: ruby-sshkit
> Version: 1.9.0-1
> Severity: serious

> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> ruby-sshkit's testsuite appears to use method timing/benchmarking in
> such a way that it will non-deterministically FTBFS:
> 
> 117     def assert_within_10_ms(array)
> 118       assert_in_delta(*array, 0.01) # 10 msec
> 119     end

I agree this is suboptimal, but these operations succeed on modern
hardware including the buildd network, so throwing developer
manpower at this is a bad investment at this time.

Best,
-ch