[R-pkg-team] Bug#1104495: Bug#1104495: r-cran-httr2: flaky tests on riscv64

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Hi Charles,

* Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> [250502 03:15]:
>> * Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> [250501 10:56]:
>Le Thu, May 01, 2025 at 03:56:52PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler a écrit :
>>
>> I think you are mostly hurting your own team, as packages will be stuck
>> migrating etc.
>
>thanks for your help in general; if my actions make your work harder, I will
>stop changing severities.
>
>This said, please correct me if anything is wrong in the following:
[..]
>
> - r-cran-httr2 is in Trixie at the same version as in Sid, does
>   not need migration at the moment, and does not block any migration.

Yes, but other packages also trigger the r-cran-httr2 test. For 
example, r-cran-base. Which was blocked from migrating for a while 
because of r-cran-httr2 - at least until someone noticed.

> - Nobody knows how to make r-cran-httr2 tests more robust on risc64
>   (except of course by disabling them).

It looks like the tests have an internal timeout, until when they 
expect something to start. I imagine this timeout can be increased.


I've briefly spoken to Paul here at MiniDebConf Hamburg. It might be 
reasonable to rejectlist r-cran-httr2 on riscv64, but please 
consider increasing the r-cran-httr2 tests internal timeout first.

Chris