Hi Nilesh, On 02-04-2021 13:40, Nilesh Patra wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 20:53:00 +0200 Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, I looked into >> the history of your autopkgtest [1] and I noticed version 1.5.3-2 fails >> regularly on amd64, while sporadically a rerun passes. I copied some of >> the output at the bottom of this report. It hits the autopkgtest time >> out after 2hours and 47 minutes. Successful runs pass in less than a minute. >> >> 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 causing people unrelated to your package to spend time on these >> tests. > > That makes sense - do you think marking this test as flaky can be > solution?
No, because when a test times out, that restriction doesn't work. You'll need to keep the test below 2:47, and as it normally takes less than a minute, it may point at something seriously hanging. Paul
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