[Python-modules-team] Bug#846771: python-traits: FTBFS randomly

[Santiago Vila]

severity 846771 important
retitle 846771 python-traits: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)
thanks

Tried to build this 50 times today, on 9 different autobuilders.
It failed 17 times, but it was always on 2 of the 9 autobuilders.

This is consistent with the fact that Lucas was able to reproduce it
in their machines.

As Niko Tyni would say, "this does not seem random to me", but
I've noticed this behaviour on bugs related with filesystem
ordering (i.e. failing always in some machines and never in others).

So please try in different machines :-)

I've put my build logs here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/python-traits/

As a summary, the tests I see to fail are the following two:

FAIL: test_delegation_refleak (traits.tests.test_regression.TestRegression)
FAIL: test_no_leaking_notifiers (traits.tests.test_regression.TestRegression)

I'm downgrading this to important as I do with other random bugs,
but please keep considering this as if it was serious.

Thanks.