found 599992 5.10.1-14 severity 599992 important thanks On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:46:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:30:34PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Source: perl > > Version: 5.10.1-15 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: FTBFS > > > your package no longer builds on mips: > > | lib/Memoize/t/speed...........................................FAILED at > > test 2 > > I doubt Memoize is really broken. There certainly weren't any related > changes between 5.10.1-14 and -15. Could you please give it back so we > see if that succeeds?
It did succeed. > This test is timing sensitive by nature: it calculates Fibonacci numbers > recursively until the calculation of the next one takes more than ten > seconds, then checks that a memoized run takes less than one tenth > of that. > > It seems conceivable that a load spike on a slow machine could make the > memoized run (which itself is trivial CPU-wise) to take two seconds, > which would cause the failure. Non-deterministic uncommon build failures haven't been considered release critical in the past, so downgrading the severity. Even if the release team thinks otherwise, this shouldn't block the -15 testing transition as -14 has the same issue. I think the probability of this failure mode could be made smaller by raising the $LONG_RUN value in lib/Memoize/t/speed.t (currently 10 seconds) at the cost of longer build times. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
