[Python-modules-team] Bug#830377: Reduce bug`s severity?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 08:56:12AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 03/09/16 at 22:37 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > it looks like this test failure is the random case. I was not
> > able to reproduce it building it 2 times on barriere.debian.org.
> > 
> > I propose to reduce the bug severity to "normal".
> 
> I gave it another try, and it fails reproducibly for me.
> 
> Interestingly, it fails with:
> python2.7 -m unittest discover -v -f
> 
> but doesn't fail with:
> python2.7 -m unittest discover -v -f -p "test_regression*"
> 
> So it might be a breakage elsewhere in the test suite causing this
> particular test to fail.
>...

In Ubuntu Matthias disabled this assert on armhf and ppc64el to work 
around the same test failure:
https://patches.ubuntu.com/p/python-traits/python-traits_4.5.0-1ubuntu2.patch

It might make sense that a maintainer reports this to upstream?

> Lucas

cu
Adrian

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