On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 11:47 +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > > Hi, > > While running the testsuite, the "gst/rtspserver" test emits about 200k > UDP packets into the local network. They are all sent to a multicast > address which will be forwarded to the router for the current subnet and > then probably dropped (since no-one else should be in the chosen > multicast group). This violates Policy 4.9 which states "For packages in > the main archive, no required targets may attempt network access." > > On a related note, this does seem to be the cause of losing all the mips > buildds at AQL recently. The multicast traffic seems to trip the > protection mechanisms at AQL and so the router disables the Debian rack > to "protect" the rest of the network. There was a firewall rule to > prevent this, but there was a typo in it so it didn't work this time. > > It is likely this package will be blacklisted on mips* until this bug is > fixed.
Can you think of any alternative other than disabling the testsuite? I'm ok with disabling it if there's nothing else we can do, and feel free to also just upload a NMU for that :) Sebastian
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