[Python-modules-team] Bug#850236: python-django: FTBFS (AssertionError)

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 03:25:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> This is https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27637 and has been fixed
> in version 1.10.5 that just got uploaded. The failure only happens during
> one week every 4 years.

A whole week? I am not sure the security team would be happy with
being unable to fix critical a bug in a whole week, if such thing ever
happens.

> So it's not really release critical but we still want the new
> version to migrate in testing so it doesn't change much.

It depends. My goal is to build 25000 source packages in a row and have
0.5 failures on average in total (i.e. closer to 0 than to 1).

If we have 50 packages which FTBFS randomly, they should fail less
than 1% on average.

One week every 4 years is more than 7% of the time. Too much for my taste.

Thanks.