On Saturday, March 28 2020, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On March 28, 2020 5:10:42 AM UTC, Sergio Durigan Junior
> wrote:
>>On Friday, March 27 2020, HÃ¥vard Flaget Aasen wrote:
>>
>>> On 27.03.2020 20:09, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
On Friday, March 27 2020, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> The python3-defaults with python3.8 as the default python3 has
>>migrated to
> Testing thanks to the release team hammering things around until it
>>went.
Thanks for this.
> Most of the outstanding autipkgtest failures with python3.8 were
>>fixed either
> in unstable or in git/BTS. Here are the remaining issues that
>>someone (who
> isn't me) should have a look at:
>
> celery/4.2.1-5: #952217 autorm 4/13
FWIW, I looked at this a little bit, but could not make much
>>progress.
I'm very interested in fixing this since it impacts pagure. I'll
>>try to
investigate more this weekend, but if someone else wants to take a
>>look
(and let me know), you're more than welcome!
>>>
>>> I believe I already fixed that package, it's waiting for someone to
>>> review and upload it. Did you look at the repository in salsa?
>>
>>I had looked at the repository when I was working with the package.
>>I see you pushed your changes 2 days ago, but the last time I looked at
>>the package was at least 7 days ago.
>>
>>Anyhow, I thank you for letting me know, but I am not sure I am
>>satisfied with the solution. You basically disabled the test on Python
>>3.8, which obviously works, but doesn't really tell me whether there
>>was
>>indeed a problem with the package/testcase or not.
>
> I completely agree. It's just papering over the problem. It's not in the
> spirit of the Debian Social Contract (#3).
>
>>My approach (failed, so far) was to try and figure out what was
>>happening, and then devise a proper fix for it. My next step was going
>>to be to involve upstream in this.
>>
>>Would you like to follow up with them and check if they're are aware of
>>the failure? Maybe they already have a proper solution for it.
>
> Upstream should definitely be involved.
... and the package was uploaded anyway :-/. I'm Cc'ing Jonathan in
case he hasn't seen these messages.
Anyway, I still think it's necessary to follow up on this and involve
upstream; simply disabling the test that is failing is not the Debian
way.
Thanks,
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