Bug#334030: perl: failed on buildd, i386 version 5.10.0-16

[Dominic Hargreaves]

severity 334030 normal
tags 334030 +wontfix
thanks

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:30:10PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> retitle 334030 perl: t/op/rand.t bogus failures
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:08:21AM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.10.0-16
> > Followup-For: Bug #334030
> > 
> > per
> > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl&arch=i386&ver=5.10.0-16&stamp=1223556180&file=log&as=raw
> > it just failed again.
> 
> Thanks for the notice.
> 
> i386 buildd admins: could you please schedule a retry?
> 
> t/op/rand.t contains this:
> 
>     # This test will fail .1% of the time on a normal system.
> [...]
>     # So, if this test failed on you once, run it a dozen
>     # times. If it keeps failing, it's likely that your
>     # rand is bogus. If it keeps passing, it's likely
>     # that the one failure was bogus. If it's a mix,
>     # read on to see about how to interpret the tests.
> 
> 
> Given the number of times this gets run on the buildds (twice for each
> architecture/version pair, which makes ~200 so far for the 5.10 series
> in unstable), some bogus failures can well be expected. I see 5.10.0-11.1
> failed on powerpc too in the same way.
> 
> Not sure if this needs a source fix or not. It's of course possible to
> make the test failure non-fatal, but that means real problems with
> rand() might go unnoticed.

Looks like in 5.14 failures were made even less likely:

    # This test will fail .006% of the time on a normal system.

Given this, I'm downgrading the severity further, but leaving it open
so that we have a reminder of the issue.

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