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

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 11/03/17 22:47, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 21:47 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> BTW: The ri-li package used to fail 95% of the time in my autobuilders
>> and also "often" in reproducible builds autobuilders. Somebody found
>> a way to make this failure rate to decrease dramatically, maybe
>> it may give you a hint.
>
> Could you point me to the specific commit or portion of the discussion
> where the fix is described, please? I'd be happy to prepare a debdiff
> for you to apply to check whether this fix you mention works with
> src:python-qtpy.

The only recent commit from src:ri-li that looks applicable to
src:python-qtpy is the use of the additional `-a` flag for the
xvfb-run calls. I can apply it and provide you with a debdiff.

Ghis