Dear GNOME maintainers: Based on the comments by Andreas in the rygel bug, I could understand your desire to do the "right thing" and fix the failing tests, but it surely would take time and effort, and nobody can really force you to do that.
If you decide to disable the tests, I'm attaching a patch to make it easy. I've actually tested it (by diffing build logs), and it does what it says it does. Thanks a lot.
diff -Nru libgda5-5.2.4/debian/changelog libgda5-5.2.4/debian/changelog --- libgda5-5.2.4/debian/changelog 2016-09-23 10:22:18.000000000 +0200 +++ libgda5-5.2.4/debian/changelog 2016-10-24 16:35:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +libgda5 (5.2.4-3) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Disable check_data_proxy and check_vcnc, as they fail randomly + and make the package to FTBFS (Closes: #811068, #839444). + + -- Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:35:54 +0200 + libgda5 (5.2.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Team upload. diff -Nru libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/disable-randomly-failing-tests.patch libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/disable-randomly-failing-tests.patch --- libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/disable-randomly-failing-tests.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/disable-randomly-failing-tests.patch 2016-10-24 16:34:01.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +From: Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> +Subject: Disable check_data_proxy and check_vcnc, known to fail randomly, until we know why they fail +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/811068 +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/839444 + +--- libgda5-5.2.4.orig/tests/data-models/Makefile.am ++++ libgda5-5.2.4/tests/data-models/Makefile.am +@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS = \ + + TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = GDA_TOP_SRC_DIR="$(abs_top_srcdir)" GDA_TOP_BUILD_DIR="$(abs_top_builddir)" + check_PROGRAMS = check_model_import check_virtual check_data_proxy check_model_copy check_pmodel check_empty_rs check_model_errors check_vcnc check_pivot +-TESTS = check_model_import check_virtual check_data_proxy check_model_copy check_pmodel check_empty_rs check_model_errors check_vcnc check_pivot ++TESTS = check_model_import check_virtual check_model_copy check_pmodel check_empty_rs check_model_errors check_pivot + + common_sources = \ + ../test-errors.h \ diff -Nru libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/series libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/series --- libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/series 2016-09-23 09:56:32.000000000 +0200 +++ libgda5-5.2.4/debian/patches/series 2016-10-24 16:32:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ 01-link-sqlite-provider-against-sqlite3.patch Accept-SQLITE_INDEX_CONSTRAINT_LIKE-from-sqlite.patch +disable-randomly-failing-tests.patch
