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Bug#1104335: britney/debci: sometimes lists a non-regression fail as a regression



On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 06:46:55PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> Can you imagine that the report below is due to the recent changes to debci?
> This is not the first report I'm getting and they started to come in after
> the improvement.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 29-04-2025 11:31, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > 
> > The testing excuses list sometimes shows an autopkgtest as 'Regression',
> > with the reference link going to an old (often old enough that the log
> > is no longer available) passing migration-reference, when a newer
> > migration-reference exists and failed (i.e. when the failure is not
> > actually a regression).
> > 
> > In all the cases I've noticed, this happened on only one architecture,
> > even when the underlying 'reference used to pass, now fails' condition
> > exists on more than one architecture.
> > 
> > Instances I've noticed recently are r-bioc-keggrest/amd64 #1104334
> > blocking r-base, pique/(I've forgotten which architecture) blocking r-
> > base, and r-cran-plotly/riscv64 (listing https://ci.debian.net/packages/
> > r/r-cran-plotly/testing/riscv64/58034134/ as the reference) blocking r-
> > cran-testthat.  (The fact that these are all R packages is probably
> > because that's where I've been looking recently, *not* a property of the
> > bug itself.  This is not an unblock request, as none of those are
> > otherwise ready.)
> > 
> > Workaround: Retrying the _reference_ test (using the link on the testing
> > excuses page) makes it stop counting as a regression.  Waiting *may*
> > also do so.

Yes, this could be related. It turns out that jobs that are getting
expired also get their "last updated" field changed and will now be
returned by the API.

I will revert the API change right away and think about a better
solution later.

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