❦ 1 octobre 2016 14:17 CEST, Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> : > I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" > (which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it) > but it failed: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [...] > > debian/rules:11: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed > make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' > debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed > make: *** [build-indep] Error 2 > dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It does not always fail, but it does not always build ok, and this > failure is an example. Sorry, I don't know how to reproduce the > failure, but the build log (which is attached) gives a very good hint > about why this can happen, as it contains a line like this: > > failed, a test is taking more than the allocated time > > An autobuilder does not necessarily have a constant and predictable > CPU speed. The same machine could be doing other things in parallel. > Therefore, any test which tries to check that things are ok by > measuring execution times should better be disabled.
Conversation tests may randomly deadlock. It happens to me from time to
time but I didn't find way. I'll disable them.
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