retitle 908862 neutron: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)
thanks

Dear Thomas: Please don't put my name in the bug title like you did.
That's a gross mischaracterization of what's really happening.
I'm recovering the original title, but adding the word "randomly",
meaning that it fails in some systems and it works in some others.

I believe this is a race condition of some sort. You can probably
reproduce the failure in your laptop by doing this:

taskset -c 0 dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -A

I hope this should finally make moreinfo and unreproducible not to
apply anymore.

Disabling the tests in debian/rules if a single CPU is detected would
probably help, but, as I've shown, the problem is not limited to
single-CPU systems. I would bet that this also fails in your system
if you try enough times, but we might better stop here and let upstream
do their job at finding a proper fix.

For the Debian package, I would just disable the failing tests, as
they do not seem to be trusted.

Thanks.

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