2017-01-04 13:26 GMT+01:00 Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es>: > No matter how much glitch-free is the autobuilder you use to build the > above package, it will fail to build 1 every 147 times on average, > mathematically, because the test is wrongly designed.
That is not always true. If you look in many tests from numerical simulation packages, there is usually a "threshold" for test result which should not be exceeded. And the test result varies in the limits, which are set by upstream authors. This result can be different even on the same machine, running the simulation several time. And it is normal. The "fix" for such cases is the increasing of the threshold or disabling the test completely. Because you can do nothing with it due to the nature of numerical simulations. > Really, we need more people doing QA, and not stop doing it "because > we are near the freeze". If you are maintaining the package several years, fixing most of its bugs, hoping to see it in release and trying to escape major changes several months before the freeze.. Sure, it will actively be defended from maintainers if some pseudo-reasons for its removal appear just before the freeze. This fact has to be considered as well. Best regards Anton -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers