Hello, Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> wrote: > but the failure rate is extremely high (around 70% here).
Thanks for the number. When I built, I didn't get failure in such a rate. I built it in my machine (a few times), and upload it to Debian, where it automatically built on several machines, you know. So far, I have no clue fixing this bug (I have been not able to identify the cause). > If the package is useful despite of this, I recommend disabling the > test suite completely, as in the patch below (there will be plenty > of time after the release of buster to fix the buggy test suite). I believe it is useful, that is a reason why I maintain it. In my opinion, your patch is hiding a problem. I'm afraid it is against our social contract #3 (We will not hide problems). With it, there will be no information if it build well or not. I think that a (possibly right) procedure is to downgrade severity, in this situation. For me, it's difficult to accept a patch to hide a problem. If you claim that it is so severe that it (randomly) FTBFS on your machine (despite it was successfully built on several Debian machines), that's unfortunate for potential users of this package. --
