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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2017, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 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.

Your mathematics are broken :-)

52 weeks per year, 1 week out of 4 years = 1 / (4*52) = 0.0048 < 0.5%

Cheers,
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