[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:51:50PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 14:36 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > The failure rate is about 1% or 2%.
> > 
> > If you try to reproduce it please try a *lot* of times.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at that point I don't think it's worth investing time or disabling tests
> altogether. If you come with a way to fix this then don't hesitate to ping us.

I disagree slightly.

If we allow the 24864 packages in stretch to fail to build 1% of the time,
try to calculate the probability that you get no failures if you build
all of them.

By my count you will get no failures once every 3x10^109 times, approximately.

I expect this probability to be a lot closer to 1, so a failiure rate
of 1% for a single package is not really as good as it might seem.

Thanks.