Hello, On Sun 26 May 2024 at 06:02pm -05, Rob Browning wrote:
> Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > >> I think we should move the tests to run under autopkgtest, rather than >> during the build. Debian's autopkgtest infrastructure, with things like >> blocking migration, is by now quite sophisticated. >> >> On IRC it's also been suggested that we also >> >> - mark dired-test-bug27243-02 as flaky (thanks Arto Jantunen); and >> >> - in the new autopkgtest, don't run the tests in parallel. > > I don't have a good overall sense of what's been failing lately, but I > did wonder if just marking that test (and any others that have been > (unnecessary) trouble) as flaky, and going back to not running the tests > in parallel on the autobuilders might be sufficient. > > As long as the package tests restrict transitions, moving the tests > there, if we can, may be fine too, but if we could keep the spurious > test failure rate low enough (pretty low) without *too* much effort, > then I think catching failures during the build is somewhat preferable > (in case the error is serious). I agree with you in principle, but I'm proposing this precisely because I think that the level of effort has already become too high. I find that I have to do multiple givebacks every upload. -- Sean Whitton
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