Bug#799718: libthread-pool-perl: nondeterministic test failure in t/Pool01.t

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 08:35:29PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:49:50 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That's my understanding as well.
> Just yesterday I downgraded a bug of this type to important after
> consulting with a member of the release team.

I agree with Niko and gregoa. I don't see a practical benefit of making
such bugs RC in the general case. I'm sure there are circumstances
where it would be justified, but based on my experience with perl and
some of the more esoteric architectures, I think such a policy would
do more harm than good.

Dominic.