Re: [R-pkg-team] Bug#1104495: Bug#1104495: r-cran-httr2: flaky tests on riscv64

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

* Charles Plessy <charles@plessy.org> [250504 01:05]:
> Indeed it seems that there is a timeout of 30s that seems enough to
> cause the tests to fail around 5% of the times.  I also note that
> some of the failures were synchronised on some architecture (like
> failing on the same day in amd64 and arm64), so it may be network
> issues that are not solvable by changing the timeout.

30s might be too slow on all archs, on "loaded" runners.

> > I've briefly spoken to Paul here at MiniDebConf Hamburg. It might be 
> > reasonable to rejectlist r-cran-httr2 on riscv64, but please 
> > consider increasing the r-cran-httr2 tests internal timeout first.
>
> Indeed, the failure rate on risc64 is way higher than on other release
> architectures.  The tests run also 10 times slower, which is a lot.  I
> am not familiar with risc64, but if the usage pattern of this
> architecture is narrower than amd64 and arm64 and does not include
> scientific computing, it may make sense to just remove all
> team-maintained r-cran-* packages there too, as it is not supported
> upstream.  Risc64 users who just want to perform HTTP requests with a
> script language have better alternatives such as Perl or Python.

The expectation is that riscv64 will get significantly faster 
hardware (in general and in Debian), but probably during forky.

I can't make the call for you or the riscv porters.

Chris