Bug#930441: perl: dist/threads-shared/t/waithires.t fails with faketime

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:35:09PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 22:17:26 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > I expect the best "fix" for this is to disable faketime usage in the
> > reprotest pipeline, if possible.
> 
> To disable the time variation in general would probably be a loss,

Yeah, I meant specifically with the perl package. (Though I maintain
that libfaketime is unfortunately fragile.)

> but for the perl package it should be possible to adjust
> https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/interpreter/perl/blob/debian-5.30/debian/salsa-ci.yml
> to pass REPROTEST_EXTRA_ARGS [0] in "variables:" with something like
> '--no-diffoscope --vary=-time'
> (--no-diffoscope taken from the template, can maybe be left out)
> 
> No tries, no guarantees, but maybe something like this works :)

Thanks, will experiment!
-- 
Niko