Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 watcher FTBFS in some timezones
Control: severity -1 serious

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:35:40PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 04:20:18PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 02:38:47PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > >...
> > > I see you have downgraded this from serious, but Release Policy says
> > > packages must build without failure. Could you please tell me
> > > in which sense this:
> > > 
> > > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/watcher.html
> > > 
> > > is not a failure?
> > 
> > This error in reproducible looks pretty different (it is also not a hang)
> > from what you reported.
> 
> Ok, you mean I should have filed two different bugs? Well, maybe.
> Can you file a bug for the failure in reproducible-builds?

I'm cloning a bug for this.

> I'll rephrase my question, then: In which way a hang is not a build
> failure and therefore worthy of serious severity?

My main point was that your hang and the FTBFS in reproducible look
completely unrelated.

> > In any case it would be good if the package would be uploaded source-only,
> > since this would have made it easy to see whether it also fails on the
> > buildds.
> 
> Yes, I fully agree, and I have been asking him to do this for a long
> time already.

This might even have cought your problem due to:

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:02:13AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Though one thing: I had to break the run of unit tests into multiple
> runs, otherwise it would hang. So it's porbable that there's a kind of
> race condition between the tests. So this should have something to do
> with parallelism when running the tests.

Raising back to serious since this strongly suggests the package
wouldn't build on the buildds.

> Thanks.

cu
Adrian

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