Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-16 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:34:23 + Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 22:19 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I would consider disabling the test suite (maybe to enable it again > > after the release of Debian 9). > > I believe you are right, let's disable the

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-13 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 22:19 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:40:14AM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > Could you try the following debdiff, please? > > The proposed patch does not fix the FTBFS problem. > See attach (but I also tried several more times). Apart from the

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:40:14AM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Could you try the following debdiff, please? The proposed patch does not fix the FTBFS problem. See attach (but I also tried several more times). In case you want to reproduce this for yourself, I wrote a description of my

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-13 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 21:41 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:47:36PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > > Could you point me to the specific commit or portion of the discussion > > where the fix is described, please? I'd be happy to prepare a debdiff > > for you to apply

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:47:36PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Could you point me to the specific commit or portion of the discussion > where the fix is described, please? I'd be happy to prepare a debdiff > for you to apply to check whether this fix you mention works with >

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-13 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Sun, 2017-03-12 at 19:08 +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > On 11/03/17 22:47, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 21:47 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > BTW: The ri-li package used to fail 95% of the time in my autobuilders > > > and also "often" in reproducible builds

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-12 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 11/03/17 22:47, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 21:47 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: BTW: The ri-li package used to fail 95% of the time in my autobuilders and also "often" in reproducible builds autobuilders. Somebody found a way to make this failure rate to decrease

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-11 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 21:47 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 08:17:18AM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > > A (potential) fix for this would be to try out testing with pytest-xvfb > > (which I have recently packaged, so only in unstable for now), instead of > > calling

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 08:17:18AM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > A (potential) fix for this would be to try out testing with pytest-xvfb > (which I have recently packaged, so only in unstable for now), instead of > calling xvfb-run manually. > > pytest-xvfb is supposed to provide a more

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-03-11 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
Hi Santiago, A (potential) fix for this would be to try out testing with pytest-xvfb (which I have recently packaged, so only in unstable for now), instead of calling xvfb-run manually. pytest-xvfb is supposed to provide a more robust setup for tests requiring xvfb. I have had successful

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-02-18 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 19:42 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > As far as this bug is concerned, all I can do is tag it for help, since > > I have no clue how to make any sort of progress. If yourself or someone > > else finds a fix for it, I will happily incorporate the corresponding > > patches. >

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-02-13 Thread Santiago Vila
> As far as this bug is concerned, all I can do is tag it for help, since > I have no clue how to make any sort of progress. If yourself or someone > else finds a fix for it, I will happily incorporate the corresponding > patches. A closer look tells me that this is not really random. Instead,

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-02-13 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
control: tags -1 + help On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 18:03 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > However, there is another package involving xvfb-run which always fail > > > for me. Can you reproduce this bug? > > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/848063 > > > > > > The maintainer downgraded it to

Bug#854496: python-qtpy: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2017-02-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: src:python-qtpy Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: important Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" but it failed: [...] debian/rules build-indep dh build-indep