Hi Paul, Quoting Paul Gevers (2019-03-17 19:50:22) > Since the end of February the autopkgtest of mmdebstrap sometimes fails in > unstable and testing, while a retry not much later succeeds. Because the > unstable-to-testing migration software now blocks on regressions in testing, > flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip between passing and failing without changes > to the list of installed packages, are wasting peoples time. Please either > fix the test to be more robust, or mark this particular test as "flaky". > > I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Unfortunately, > the failure doesn't always seem to be on the same place.
yes, this is because the source of the flakiness are from M-A:same version skews in unstable. For example recently: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-8 As you can see the armhf version was built only 13 hours after the amd64 version. To correct, this mmdebstrap can be patched to use "testing" as the target distribution where packages only migrate to after they have been built on all architectures. But due to the freeze I guess this is only realistic for buster+1? You made this bug severity important so I guess you don't mean to say that this issue has RC severity and thus warrents an exception from the release team? Thanks! cheers, josch
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