On 17 January 2011 12:53, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:46 +0000, sebb wrote:
>> On 17 January 2011 12:37, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:14 +0000, ant elder wrote:
>> >
>> > ...
>> >
>> >> When i try building the src for this i get two fails, is that expected:
>> >>
>> >> Tests in error:
>> >>   
>> >> testUseRetryHandlerInConnectionTimeOutWithThreadSafeClientConnManager(org.apache.http.impl.client.TestRequestRetryHandler)
>> >>   
>> >> testUseRetryHandlerInConnectionTimeOutWithSingleClientConnManager(org.apache.http.impl.client.TestRequestRetryHandler)
>> >>
>> >> Tests run: 520, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0
>> >>
>> >
>> > @Ant
>> >
>> > Damn. These two cases have been failing intermittently for quite some
>>
>> AIUI, the failures are not intermittent.
>> If the tests fail on a given system, they will continue to do so
>> unless the DNS service is changed.
>>
>> > due to their reliance on DNS name resolution, which tends to be behave
>> > differently on different platforms.
>>
>> I think it's the DNS servers that vary. Some are not compliant with the RFCs.
>>
>> > I tinkered with the test cases
>> > shortly before building RC2, but I was not careful enough. While the
>> > tests passed locally for me, they kept on failing on Hudson. I reworked
>> > the tests once again and this time I believe the problem has been
>> > resolved for good. Unfortunately the fix did not make it into RC2.
>> >
>> > If you think this is a release blocker I will call off the release and
>> > will cut RC3 later today.
>> >
>> > @Sebastian, what is your take?
>>
>> I don't think it's a blocker to release code with known bugs,
>> especially test case bugs.
>>
>> But it would be sensible to note this in the release notes on the
>> web-site and perhaps in the announce to the dev/user lists to
>> forestall any complaints.
>
> It is a GA release and the whole trouble was of my making. I am calling
> off the release
>
> Folks, please bear with me for another vote based on RC3

In that case, if possible please use Java 1.5 to build the code as was
done for RC1?

(RC2 used 1.6)

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