Control: severity -1 serious Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-12-29 23:30:11) > Quoting Graham Inggs (2020-12-29 20:35:03) > > The build of link-grammar/5.8.0-3 has already failed on ppc64el [1] > > (details below). > > > > As fun as it is, please let's avoid the BTS sports and leave this > > bug open until link-grammar builds and passes its autopkgtests > > reliably. > > I closed the bugreport when in -3 I optimistally expected the test > failures to be gone. I agree this bug should stay open when that's > not the case. > > I disagree, however, that the current level of flakiness renders the > package unsuitable for a stable Debian release. Ouch - I begin to understand now why others before ne had patches the build routines to fully avoid checking tests during build: autopkgtest can be marked build-needed and flaky, but apparently the build includes any build-time tests and failing those are not considered flaky. I am now in touch with upstream on getting to the bottom of the causes for the test failure. I will also try simplify autopkgtest to not need to rebuild all source. I've bumped severity back to serious: I thought that a) build-time failure was less frequent and b) I had succeeded in annotating this test as flaky for autopkgtest - but the latter is clearly not the case and I am not so sure about the former either... :-/ - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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