retitle 849363 libtime-format-perl: FTBFS randomly (race condition in t/time.t) reassign 849363 src:libtime-format-perl severity 849363 important found 849363 1.12-3 thanks
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: libtime-format-perl > Version: 1.12-3 > User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: autopkgtest > > This package failed its test suite on ci.debian.net. > > not ok 78 - current time > > # Failed test 'current time' > # at t/time.t line 124. > # got: 'Sun Dec 25 22:30:08 2016' > # expected: 'Sun Dec 25 22:30:07 2016' > # Looks like you failed 1 test of 78. > Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) > Failed 1/78 subtests > > This is clearly a race in the test. I see this comment: > > # Note that there are two race conditions in the last section, above. > # 1: The day or month could change between the first localtime() > # call and the second. > # 2: The time (especially the seconds) could change between the > # %time call and the second localtime(). > # The first is extremely rare; the second more frequent. > > # Re-run the test suite if there is any doubt. This actually happened to me while building the package, so I'm putting this bug in the "FTBFS" category. I attach a failed build log. [ I would raise this one to serious, but I'm awaiting for reply from the RM regarding FTBFS-randomly bugs, so I will sadly end up downgrading all of them to important in the meantime ]. Thanks.
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