Bug#839393: exabgp: FTBFS sometimes (failing tests)

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦  1 octobre 2016 14:17 CEST, Santiago Vila  :

> I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
> (which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
> but it failed:
>
> 
> [...]
>
> debian/rules:11: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<>'
> debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
> make: *** [build-indep] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
> 
>
> It does not always fail, but it does not always build ok, and this
> failure is an example. Sorry, I don't know how to reproduce the
> failure, but the build log (which is attached) gives a very good hint
> about why this can happen, as it contains a line like this:
>
> failed, a test is taking more than the allocated time
>
> An autobuilder does not necessarily have a constant and predictable
> CPU speed. The same machine could be doing other things in parallel.
> Therefore, any test which tries to check that things are ok by
> measuring execution times should better be disabled.

Conversation tests may randomly deadlock. It happens to me from time to
time but I didn't find way. I'll disable them.
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Bug#839393: exabgp: FTBFS sometimes (failing tests)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:exabgp
Version: 3.4.16-1
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
but it failed:


[...]

debian/rules:11: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<>'
debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
make: *** [build-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2


It does not always fail, but it does not always build ok, and this
failure is an example. Sorry, I don't know how to reproduce the
failure, but the build log (which is attached) gives a very good hint
about why this can happen, as it contains a line like this:

failed, a test is taking more than the allocated time

An autobuilder does not necessarily have a constant and predictable
CPU speed. The same machine could be doing other things in parallel.
Therefore, any test which tries to check that things are ok by
measuring execution times should better be disabled.

Thanks.

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