[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#956438: Tests failures on kfreebsd architectures

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 12:54:57 +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> Indeed, I just forced parallel=1 on the buildd (kamp) for dbus-python
> and the builds succeeded. If it helps anyone debugging this, kamp has 2
> i7-4790K cores allocated to it, which is a desktop processor not a
> server processor so has a higher clock speed (and despite being a 2014
> model performs very well; this buildd alone can easily keep up with both
> kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386). The buildd is also configured with
> parallel=2, and has a habit of exposing race conditions in test
> scripts...

If there's an incompatibility for two of the tests running in parallel,
I'm surprised not to have seen it on any of the Linux machines where
I've been building dbus-python in parallel mode for several years.

Presumably this is kFreeBSD-specific, but I can't think of a reason why
it would be...

    smcv