Re: Paul Gevers > This happens often enough on some architectures on ci.d.n that the Release > Team considers this RC. Because the unstable-to-testing migration software > now blocks on regressions in testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip > between passing and failing without changes to the list of installed > packages, are causing people unrelated to your package to spend time on > these tests. Just like Otto did.
Fwiw, I stumbled over this last week when it was blocking postgresql-17, and now again for blocking postgresql-common. If you cannot fix the tests reliably, mark them as "flaky". Thanks, Christoph