On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 11:45 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 20 février 2017 10:05 GMT, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> : > > > None of the FTBFS problems I've seen in this thread have been because the > > tests *required* multiple cores, by the way; more so that they were racy > > or buggy in some other fashion. If uniprocessor buildds are finding these > > bugs then that's a virtue, IMHO. > > Time is a limited resource and we need to set our priorities. Having > test suites that work 100% of the time with constrained resources is not > a goal I find worthy of the time I can spend on Debian. Unfortunately, > those bugs are popping up as RC and I have the choice between > downgrading them and appear as a bad player or fix them.
I share the same feelings towards a similar intermittent FTBFS with src:python-qtpy (#8544936). I admit I have no clue what is going on, neither does upstream, nor does the reporter (Santiago). Ghis