Bug#875324: diffoscope: Increased number of timeouts in recent versions?

[Chris Lamb]

Package: diffoscope
Version: 86
Tags: moreinfo
X-Debbugs-Builds: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,

It's been reported on IRC that there has been a recently a lot more
diffoscope timeouts on jenkins.debian.net.

This bug is designed to collect any more details on this issue so
we can potentially spot a pattern and fix it hence filing with the
"moreinfo" tag.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages diffoscope depends on:
ii  python3                3.5.3-3
ii  python3-distro         1.0.1-2
ii  python3-libarchive-c   2.1-3.1
ii  python3-magic          1:5.32-1
ii  python3-pkg-resources  36.2.7-2

Versions of packages diffoscope recommends:
ii  acl                                            2.2.52-3+b1
pn  apktool                                        <none>
pn  binutils-multiarch                             <none>
ii  bzip2                                          1.0.6-8.1
ii  caca-utils                                     0.99.beta19-2+b2
ii  colord                                         1.3.3-2
pn  default-jdk-headless | default-jdk | java-sdk  <none>
ii  device-tree-compiler                           1.4.2-1
ii  docx2txt                                       1.4-0.2
ii  enjarify                                       1:1.0.3-3
ii  fontforge-extras                               0.3-4
pn  fp-utils                                       <none>
ii  genisoimage                                    9:1.1.11-3+b2
ii  gettext                                        0.19.8.1-4
pn  ghc                                            <none>
ii  ghostscript                                    9.21~dfsg-1
ii  giflib-tools                                   5.1.4-1
ii  gnupg                                          2.2.0-3
ii  imagemagick                                    8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]                8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
pn  jsbeautifier                                   <none>
ii  libarchive-tools                               3.2.2-2
pn  llvm                                           <none>
pn  mono-utils                                     <none>
ii  odt2txt                                        0.5-1+b2
ii  oggvideotools                                  0.9.1-4
ii  openssh-client                                 1:7.5p1-10
pn  pdftk                                          <none>
ii  pgpdump                                        0.31-0.2
ii  poppler-utils                                  0.57.0-2
pn  python3-argcomplete                            <none>
ii  python3-debian                                 0.1.30
pn  python3-defusedxml                             <none>
pn  python3-guestfs                                <none>
ii  python3-progressbar                            2.3-4
ii  python3-rpm                                    4.12.0.2+dfsg1-2+b1
ii  python3-tlsh                                   3.4.4+20151206-1+b3
ii  r-base-core                                    3.4.1-2+b1
ii  rpm2cpio                                       4.12.0.2+dfsg1-2+b1
ii  sng                                            1.1.0-1+b1
ii  sqlite3                                        3.20.1-1
ii  squashfs-tools                                 1:4.3-4
ii  tcpdump                                        4.9.2-1
ii  unzip                                          6.0-21
ii  vim-common                                     2:8.0.0946-1
ii  xxd                                            2:8.0.0946-1
ii  xz-utils                                       5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages diffoscope suggests:
ii  libjs-jquery  3.2.1-1

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Regards,

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