[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] telepathy-glib 0.15.5-1 test issues

[Bob Tracy]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:06:37PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On the Alpha platform, the "telepathy-glib" package appears to be
> building correctly, but the tests are time-sensitive and some of them fail
> "randomly" based on whether the package is being built on the console
> (relatively fast I/O) or over a remote network connection (somewhat
> slower I/O).  The problem is that the debug level for the tests is
> cranked-up so #$%@! high that the debug output is slowing down the test
> execution enough to trigger timeout errors.
> (...)

After trying various timeout values up to 120 seconds, I worked around
the issue by hardcoding the return in tests/lib/util.c:tp_test_abort_after()
where it would normally occur if TP_TESTS_NO_TIMEOUT is set.  Subsequently,
all tests completed/passed.

--Bob