Hi Santiago, Thanks for the bug report. I've reported this issue to upstream[1]. In the mean time, I've recently packaged the newest upstream release. Could you please re-run your tests (or advise me how to) for this new version.
FWIW, I have experienced issues related to POSIX semaphores when building this package in pbuider chroots, related to a missing /dev/shm. I have never experienced the issues you report though. Cheers, K [1]: https://bitbucket.org/snakemake/snakemake/issues/426/random-test-hangs-during-debian-package --- Kevin Murray