Control: severity -1 important Hi,
在 2020-03-09一的 17:12 -0400，Sergio Durigan Junior写道： > Control: severity -1 serious > Control: tags -1 + patch > > On Thursday, March 05 2020, I wrote: > > > On Wednesday, January 29 2020, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > > > > Dear source-highlight maintainer, > > > > > > Currently source-highlight would FTBFS due to errors when running "make > > > test" > > > after build: > > > > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=source-highlight&arch=arm64&ver=3.1.9-1&stamp=1579812231&raw=0 > > > > > > There are differences between the expected output value and the real > > > value. > > > Please investigate into it. > > > > I took some time to investigate this on amdahl.d.o, and I am not able to > > reproduce this failure. I left "make check" running in a loop for > > several minutes, and all of the runs successfully passed without a > > problem. > > > > I'm almost sure this was a failure caused by either a non-deterministic > > test, or by some broken dependency that got fixed later. I'm therefore > > taking the liberty to downgrade the severity of this bug to normal, as > > well as retitling it to remove the FTBFS part. Feel free to revert > > these changes if you disagree. > > I stand corrected. The bug has not been fixed, and it's now impacting > the latest build even on amd64: > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=source-highlight&arch=amd64&ver=3.1.9-1.1&stamp=1583753021&raw=0 > > I *think* I understand why the problem is manifesting. The issue here > is that 'make check' is parallelized, which may cause a race condition > due to buffering, redirections and file-writing commands. It's a mess. > > I can trigger a testsuite error when I locally run 'make check -j6', but > the error doesn't happen on 'make check -j1'. For this reason, I'm > proposing the patch below, which disables parallelization on > dh_auto_test. > > I am not 100% sure of this analysis, though. But since I can't spend > much more time on this, I think it's worth a try. This looks okay to me. Will go for the NMU and give it a try. However, I do not plan to close this bug; the failure of parallel build is still a bug. Downgrading it to severity:important might be a better choice. -- Best, Boyuan Yang
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