Bug#841662: libserver-starter-perl: test suite sometimes times out

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 07:37:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:44:45 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> 
> > Non-deterministic FTBFS is a FTBFS IMHO and thus warrants RC severity.
> 
> Ah, that discussion again :)

Well, some day we all should agree about what to do with those FTBFS bugs.

Some people disable the tests when it's clear they are not
well designed (kudos to you and Niko). Some people downgrade to
important routinely and keep the test failing for everybody.

And in some extreme cases, we apparently have to "negotiate a support
contract" for the privilege of reporting them:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841098

Could we please ask the release managers about this?
(i.e. what to do with non-deterministic FTBFS failures).

Thanks.