severity 834686 serious thanks Dear maintainer:
I expected a general guideline from Release Managers regarding packages which FTBFS randomly like this one, but that will most surely not happen for stretch. So, the only guideline I have left is the one expressed by Julien Cristau (one of the RMs) in Bug #844264: "if the failure rate is low enough I think a lower severity can make sense" I posted a list of bugs which FTBFS more than 10% of the time and several people agreed on -devel that they should be serious and maintainers should ask for stretch-ignore tag in case the bug should not be RC (most bugs are about failing tests so this should not be needed in general). In the latest tests I made, this package fails for me more than 85% of the time, and it also fails (randomly) in the reproducible builds autobuilders: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/ruby-httpclient.html This may affect any user trying to build this package (for example, after making a change), our downstreams, and the Security Team once that stretch is stable. For this reason I'm raising this to serious again. Sorry for the long explanation. Thanks.
