Bug#784845: libdevel-gdb-perl: autopkgtest failure in t/expect.t

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 07:18:39PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> severity 784845 serious
> retitle 784845 libdevel-gdb-perl: FTBFS: t/expect.t #8 sometimes fails
> thanks

> Bugs about packages not building from source are RC because there is a
> release goal saying "packages must autobuild".

It did autobuild fwiw.

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libdevel-gdb-perl&ver=2.02-3&arch=all

> A build which is only successful "most of the time" should not count
> as a package which builds from source, so I'm raising severity accordingly.
> 
> [ If my interpretation of release policy is incorrect, someone please
>   tell me the amount of probability of failure which is acceptable, because
>   release policy does not talk about probabilities anywhere ].

Quoting myself in a similar case in #799718:

  While I'm not going to start a severity war (and agree that the package
  should be fixed), this is not the traditional interpretation. FTBFS bugs
  have been routinely downgraded to 'important' in the past when the build
  failures were nondeterministic and the build succeeded part of the time.

  My understanding is that the baseline requirement from the release team
  is that 'buildds need to be able to build the packages'.

  It may be that the awesome continuous integration that reproducible.d.n
  is doing has changed this picture and we should start treating all such
  bugs as release critical, but discussing that first with the release
  team and/or on the debian-devel list would be appropriate IMHO.

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org