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

[Chris Lamb]

Disagree on almost all points but I find debates about bug severities so utterly demotivating I will defer.

-lamby


On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, at 08:19 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.


Regards,

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