Hi Pierre, On 16-10-2020 22:49, Pierre Gruet wrote: > I have just found this was due to a file not being closed with the > close() method. Afterwards some other tests were counting open files and > failing because of this file not being closed whereas they expected it. > I guess the Java garbage collector was closing the file early enough on > some computers, and not on others. > > Maybe this case will help in the future when meeting other such situations.
It would be awesome if we would document this on the wiki. We have the namespace https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/. Can I ask you to create a new page with CommonPatternsInFlakyTests (or something like that, better name welcome)? Paul
