Re: Help requested: Packages which FTBFS randomly
Dear Santiago,
Le 15/02/2017 à 18:26, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> Hello.
>
> The following packages FTBFS for me randomly. First column is the bug
> number, second column is the estimated probability of failure in my
> build environment, which is described here:
>
> https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/my-building-environment.txt
>
> Before I ask the Release Managers that they make the bugs at the top
> of this list serious again
If you do that, please at the same time ask the release team to mark
them stretch-ignore, unless you are sure the test failures indicate a
real serious bug in the package.
Regards, Thibaut.
> (using some kind of threshold, as discussed
> in Bug #844264), I would appreciate if somebody else could double check
> that those packages have indeed very flaky tests (or buggy Makefiles,
> in some cases).
>
> [ Please report any findings to the nnnnnn@bugs.debian.org address ].
>
> While I agree that none of those individual bugs is more important
> than a bug of "FTBFS-always" type, some packages have a failure ratio
> so high that if we accepted that they "build from source" with such a
> high failure rate, they would effectively honor policy if we had it
> reversed, as in "packages must *not* build from source". I call this
> "the FTBFS-randomly Schrödinger paradox".
>
> This is, however, not an invitation for the Release Managers to set
> 50% of failure rate as the threshold, that would be probably the worst
> possible interpretation of "Packages must build from source" (which is
> already Release Policy).
>
> The current list:
>
> 837067 1.000 libsecret
> 848063 0.990 ri-li
> 850282 0.820 influxdb (this one is already serious, thanks Adrian)
> 854686 0.556 fabric
> 854494 0.457 execnet
> 834686 0.440 ruby-httpclient
> 843038 0.400 elki
> 842244 0.390 congress
> 850506 0.327 acorn
> 850507 0.300 golang-github-tideland-golib
> 846771 0.292 python-traits
> 851722 0.288 django-pipeline
> 842836 0.250 golang-github-mxk-go-flowrate
> 854496 0.248 python-qtpy
> 844088 0.230 conversant-disruptor
> 848055 0.230 golang-github-go-chef-chef
> 834962 0.210 ruby-diaspora-vines
> 849217 0.185 jruby
> 839444 0.183 libgda5
> 850201 0.160 tendermint-go-flowrate
> 848054 0.150 debci
> 853056 0.145 txfixtures
> 854495 0.143 node-merge-stream
> 843052 0.140 libterm-filter-perl
> 852642 0.125 scoop
> 834959 0.120 golang-goleveldb
> 850414 0.110 ruby-ftw
> 832865 0.100 telepathy-python
>
> [ The remaining packages that FTBFS randomly for me do so less than
> 10% of the time, but in either case all the figures are approximate ]
>
> Thanks.
>
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