Dear Santiago, Le 15/02/2017 à 18:26, Santiago Vila a écrit : > Hello. > > The following packages FTBFS for me randomly. First column is the bug > number, second column is the estimated probability of failure in my > build environment, which is described here: > > https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/my-building-environment.txt > > Before I ask the Release Managers that they make the bugs at the top > of this list serious again
If you do that, please at the same time ask the release team to mark them stretch-ignore, unless you are sure the test failures indicate a real serious bug in the package. Regards, Thibaut. > (using some kind of threshold, as discussed > in Bug #844264), I would appreciate if somebody else could double check > that those packages have indeed very flaky tests (or buggy Makefiles, > in some cases). > > [ Please report any findings to the nnn...@bugs.debian.org address ]. > > While I agree that none of those individual bugs is more important > than a bug of "FTBFS-always" type, some packages have a failure ratio > so high that if we accepted that they "build from source" with such a > high failure rate, they would effectively honor policy if we had it > reversed, as in "packages must *not* build from source". I call this > "the FTBFS-randomly Schrödinger paradox". > > This is, however, not an invitation for the Release Managers to set > 50% of failure rate as the threshold, that would be probably the worst > possible interpretation of "Packages must build from source" (which is > already Release Policy). > > The current list: > > 837067 1.000 libsecret > 848063 0.990 ri-li > 850282 0.820 influxdb (this one is already serious, thanks Adrian) > 854686 0.556 fabric > 854494 0.457 execnet > 834686 0.440 ruby-httpclient > 843038 0.400 elki > 842244 0.390 congress > 850506 0.327 acorn > 850507 0.300 golang-github-tideland-golib > 846771 0.292 python-traits > 851722 0.288 django-pipeline > 842836 0.250 golang-github-mxk-go-flowrate > 854496 0.248 python-qtpy > 844088 0.230 conversant-disruptor > 848055 0.230 golang-github-go-chef-chef > 834962 0.210 ruby-diaspora-vines > 849217 0.185 jruby > 839444 0.183 libgda5 > 850201 0.160 tendermint-go-flowrate > 848054 0.150 debci > 853056 0.145 txfixtures > 854495 0.143 node-merge-stream > 843052 0.140 libterm-filter-perl > 852642 0.125 scoop > 834959 0.120 golang-goleveldb > 850414 0.110 ruby-ftw > 832865 0.100 telepathy-python > > [ The remaining packages that FTBFS randomly for me do so less than > 10% of the time, but in either case all the figures are approximate ] > > Thanks. >
