[Python-apps-team] Bug#668025: mercurial: FTBFS[kfreebsd-amd64]: testsuite failure

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:14:58 +0100, Javi Merino wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:21:00AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr  8, 2012 at 13:27:03 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > 
> > > Your package failed to build on the kfreebsd-amd64 buildds:
> > > 
> > > --- /build/buildd-mercurial_2.1.2-2-kfreebsd-amd64-aq2Wfm/mercurial-2.1.2/tests/test-symlink-placeholder.t
> > > +++ /build/buildd-mercurial_2.1.2-2-kfreebsd-amd64-aq2Wfm/mercurial-2.1.2/tests/test-symlink-placeholder.t.err
> > > @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
> > >    $ rm b
> > >    $ echo foo > b
> > >    $ hg --config extensions.n=$TESTTMP/nolink.py status --debug
> > > -  ignoring suspect symlink placeholder "b"
> > >  
> > >  Make a clone using placeholders:
> > >  
> > > 
> > > ERROR: /build/buildd-mercurial_2.1.2-2-kfreebsd-amd64-aq2Wfm/mercurial-2.1.2/tests/test-symlink-placeholder.t output changed
> > > 
> > Out of 4 tries on kfreebsd-amd64 for this version, it failed 3 times on
> > 3 different tests, and succeeded on the fourth build.  Not sure I
> > understand this particular one, but I think it's more likely to be an
> > unreliable test than a new bug.
> 
> None of the changes from 2.1.2-1 to 2.1.2-2 should affect these tests, so
> that's actually 2 successful builds out of 5.  On some architectures the
> testsuite is unreliable.  If this happens again, I'll probably stop
> running it on kfreebsd-amd64.  
> 
FWIW, same failure at
http://hgbuildbot.kublai.com/builders/OS%20X%2010.6%20hg%20tests/builds/106/steps/run-tests.py%20%28python2.7%29/logs/stdio
I don't think it's an architecture issue.

Cheers,
Julien