Control: severity -1 important On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:01:37 +0100 Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear maintainer(s), > > Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, I looked into > the history of your autopkgtest [1] on amd64 and arm64 (because it is > blocking perl) and I noticed it fails regularly, while a rerun passes. I > copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. The last warning > has a different number every time. > > Because the unstable-to-testing migration software now blocks on > regressions in testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip between > passing and failing without changes to the list of installed packages, > are causing people unrelated to your package to spend time on these > tests. > > Please do get in touch if we need to dive into this together. Or if you > want to discuss this issue. I noticed that all the failed runs I checked > were done on the same worker. Could the problem be a timing issue? (The > worker has a spinning disk and is slower than our other workers).Trinityrnaseq has a very complicated testsuite, and there are probably undocumented dependencies between steps.
Since the testsuite does pass often, and perl did migrate, I am reducing the severity of this issue.
Perhaps that worker needs to be retired. -- Michael R. Crusoe
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