Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 16:01 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 03:21:14PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > But at some point it's just not practical. > > This is becoming interesting. So, would you be in favour of > establishing some kind of "probability of failure"

Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 03:21:14PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > But at some point it's just not practical. This is becoming interesting. So, would you be in favour of establishing some kind of "probability of failure" threshold under which every FTBFS bug stop being severity:serious? [ In

Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 15:16 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > I disagree slightly. Ok. > > If we allow the 24864 packages in stretch to fail to build 1% of the time, > try to calculate the probability that you get no failures if you build > all of them. It's not a matter of “allowing”. We do know

Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:51:50PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 14:36 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > The failure rate is about 1% or 2%. > > > > If you try to reproduce it please try a *lot* of times. > > Hi, > > at that point I don't think it's worth investing time

Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 14:36 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The failure rate is about 1% or 2%. > > If you try to reproduce it please try a *lot* of times. Hi, at that point I don't think it's worth investing time or disabling tests altogether. If you come with a way to fix this then don't

Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I built strongswan 10 times in a row (using pbuilder and testing). No problem, > esp. there were no failing tests. > > ??? The failure rate is about 1% or 2%. If you try to reproduce it please try a *lot* of times. Thanks.

Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-06 Thread Harald Dunkel
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Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
control: severity -1 important control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 10:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 23:13 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > The failure happens randomly. Sometimes it fails, sometimes it does not. > > Check exactly where the testsuite fails,

Bug#846026: [Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#846026: strongswan: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-11-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 23:13 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The failure happens randomly. Sometimes it fails, sometimes it does not. Check exactly where the testsuite fails, it might be lack of entropy. I'd rather not disable the testsuite altogether, we already limit it to few architectures to