[Python-modules-team] Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

[Ghislain Vaillant]

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On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 18:03 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > However, there is another package involving xvfb-run which always fail
> > > for me. Can you reproduce this bug?
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/848063
> > > 
> > > The maintainer downgraded it to important, but it fails for me 100% of
> > > the time, so it's not really very random (for me at least).
> > 
> > I built it successfully with sbuild on my local machine. I also did a
> > successful trial run on debomatic:
> > 
> > http://debomatic-i386.debian.net/distribution#unstable/ri-li/2.0.1+ds-4/buildlog
> > 
> > I understand Markus' frustration considering the package used to build
> > fine before, still builds ok now (works on my sbuild and on dom) but
> > fails with your setup, with no obvious clue as where the failure could
> > originate from.
> 
> Well, I hope you can understand my frustration too: ri-li fails for me
> 97% of the time (which is almost always), on different machines, and
> it seems to fail always as well in the reproducible builds autobuilders.

Absolutely. I don't question your motivations here, don't get me wrong.


> In such conditions the least I would expect from Markus is to accept
> the offer I made (i.e. free access to a machine where this happens always).

Even if you were to give me access to the machine where the src:python-
qtpy failures happen randomly, I don't know what I would be able to do
with it. Perhaps Markus is feeling the same, who knows.


As far as this bug is concerned, all I can do is tag it for help, since
I have no clue how to make any sort of progress. If yourself or someone
else finds a fix for it, I will happily incorporate the corresponding
patches.

Cheers,
Ghis