[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#871214: Bug#871214: Bug#871214: Bug#871214: octave-image FTBFS on i386: test hangs

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-08-10 11:06]:

> Le jeudi 10 août 2017 à 09:31 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> [2017-08-07 01:57]:
> >
> > > Source: octave-image
> > > Version: 2.6.1-1
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Tags: buster sid
> > >
> > > Some recent change in unstable and buster makes octave-image FTBFS on i386:
> > >
> > >  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/octave-image.html
> > >  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/i386/octave-image.html
> > >
> > >  [snip]
> > >  [bwdist]
> > >  Sat Sep  8 05:36:25 UTC 2018 - pbuilder was killed by timeout after 18h.
> >
> > I would guess that the culprit is the following unit test in bwdist:
> >
> >  [snip]
> > >
> > Should we run the test above only on non-x86 architectures?
>
> I would rather patch the test to allow for some tolerance margin.

I suspect that the test enters a infinite loop and, therefore, changing 
the tolerance margin will not help here.

Rafael