[DRE-maint] Bug#853244: ruby-sshkit: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests
Christian Hofstaedtler
zeha at debian.org
Sat Feb 4 13:17:23 UTC 2017
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
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