Bug#846197: cpl-plugin-xshoo: FTBFS randomly (tests 126 and 230 fail)

[Ole Streicher]

Hi Santiago,

OK, I have run it ~15 times without problems last time. I however just
disabled the wrong of the two errors (one causes the other), so I switch
this now.

However, after digging into the code, the failure looks mystic, since
the number there is just created from a substring "0.9x11" by taking
everything left of the x, and then divided by 3600. The string is fixed
in the test. It looks like that there sometimes an additional digit
slips in, but in one case (20161207T200220Z) the extraction results in
25000 instead of 0.00025. Really strange. But I don't feel that I can do
much here (it is already forwarded). Upstream is informed, however.

So, I disabled the (now hopefully right) test, and the package could be
built now 40 times in a row without failure.

Thumbs crossed :-)

Best regards

Ole

Bug#846197: cpl-plugin-xshoo: FTBFS randomly (tests 126 and 230 fail)

[Ole Streicher]

Control: forwarded -1 PIPE-6911
Control: tags -1 unreproducible

Hi,

I forwarded the problem to ESO, for reference it gets there the issue
number PIPE-6911. Their ticket system is however internal only, so that
I can't give an URL here.

I also tried to reproduce the problem, but was not successful: More than
10 builds (cowbuilder, x86_64, stretch) in a rowwere OK, without a
single failure.The same for sid. Therefore, I also do not expect that
upstream can do much here.

I will disable the test in the moment, but re-enable it when there is a
new upstream version. Please re-open if you then still encounter the
problem.

Best regards

Ole