Bug#1057562: closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> (reply to Jeremy Bícha <jbicha at ubuntu.com>) (Bug#1057562: fixed in gcr4 4.2.0-2)

[Jeremy Bícha]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: affects -1 src:gcr

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 6:36 AM Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
> > Ignore build test failures on s390x (Closes: #1057562)
>
> This is wrong for several reasons.
>
> - The bug report did not say anything about s390x.

s390x is the only architecture where the flakiness of the gcr:gck /
object build test is severe enough to unreasonably interfere with
timely building of gcr & gcr4.

Debian is full of packages where the build tests and autopkgtests are
flaky enough to be disruptive to someone expecting 100% pass rates.
There is currently no one on the Debian GNOME team with the time to
investigate and properly fix these issues.

The occasional failure is enough to remind us of this issue. I don't
think it's helpful to just disable the test since it may disguise a
real problem that someone can work on once they get sufficiently
annoyed by the issue. Also, it may be important to recognize if the
failure rate for this test on official buildds increases
significantly. The failure rate did increase on s390x but we don't
really treat s390x as a supported Desktop architecture and don't have
capacity to spend much time dealing with s390x.

I am demoting this bug because it is a valid bug, but also not severe
enough to get gcr excluded from Debian Testing.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha