Re: Bug#334030: perl: failed on buildd, i386 version 5.10.0-16

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:30:10PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> retitle 334030 perl: t/op/rand.t bogus failures
> thanks

> i386 buildd admins: could you please schedule a retry?

Resending this request: the perl version in sid, 5.10.0-16, is now 9 days
old but still lacks an i386 build.

Cc'ing the release team. For reference, this is from t/op/rand.t:

>     # This test will fail .1% of the time on a normal system.
> [...]
>     # So, if this test failed on you once, run it a dozen
>     # times. If it keeps failing, it's likely that your
>     # rand is bogus. If it keeps passing, it's likely
>     # that the one failure was bogus. If it's a mix,
>     # read on to see about how to interpret the tests.

> Not sure if this needs a source fix or not. It's of course possible to
> make the test failure non-fatal, but that means real problems with
> rand() might go unnoticed.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org