Bug#834960: libdaemon-generic-perl: FTBFS too much often (failing tests)

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:21:52 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
> > (which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
> > but it failed:
> Builds fine for me (amd64 sind cowbuilder).

Some additional information:
cpantesters have very few failures, but they are all the same as what
we see in Santiago#s logs:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/8fb11c8e-0653-11e6-a2e4-45f0fcd2507e
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/9c628bfa-2171-11e6-8c16-9a987137e9a4
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/66c774ca-7a7b-11e6-979d-6531eb7e2f12
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/a8b80e96-3132-11e5-8118-e820f1b6abcd

CPAN RT has one issue; don't know if it's related:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=110239


Personally I still can't reproduce the bug.

From starting at t/daemon.t my guess is that we're seeing a race
condition or some other timing issue here -- the daemon writes to a
log file and the test reads the logfile, and in one case the log
message doesn't seem to be there (yet?). At least that's my current
guess.

I'm tempted to mark this log-reading test as TODO since this seems a
bit fragile.


Thoughts?


Cheers,
gregor

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