Bug#863072: cronutils: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

[Chris Lamb]

Source: cronutils
Version: 1.9-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

cronutils's testsuite appears to use method timing/benchmarking in such 
a way that it will non-deterministically FTBFS. I believe this is because
it passes "-t 5" to runalarm in tests/2.sh which, of course, will
nondeterministically fail depending on the load of the build machine:

     dh_auto_test
  	make -j1 test
  make[1]: Entering directory '/build/1st/cronutils-1.9'
  ./regtest.sh
  1: OK
  2: FAIL - output match:
  5d4
  < 5
  Makefile:53: recipe for target 'test' failed
  make[1]: *** [test] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/1st/cronutils-1.9'

The full build log is attached or can be viewed here:

    https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/logs/unstable/amd64/cronutils_1.9-1.build1.log.gz


Regards,

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