On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:12:26AM +0530, Balasankar C wrote: > On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:49:13 +0200 (CEST) Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> > wrote: > > BTW: I think the "Randomized with seed xxx" above is a bad idea. > > Maintainers often ask bug reporters for "a way to reproduce the error". > > But if the build is based on random variables, this becomes an > > impossible task. Please consider modifying the build system so that > > those random things are always the same. > > I believe I have fixed this in the latest upload, in which I specified the > order to run the tests. I tried building it 5 times in a cowbuilder > environment > and didn't hit any failures. Please reopen the bug if this problem persists.
I think that in general 5 times is probably not enough. the last package I fixed that failed randomly would fail 6% of the time (i.e. ~3 times out of 50 attempts in my tests).
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