Bug#863072: cronutils: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

2018-04-15 Thread Chris Lamb
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > Yeah, it's pretty ugly. Do you have any ideas on how to improve it? Sorry, didn't see this until now. I don't have an idea on how to improve it per-se, but IMHO it is ipso facto not a real test as it is nondeterminstic. :( Regards, -- ,''`. : :' :

Bug#863072: cronutils: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

2017-05-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Yeah, it's pretty ugly. Do you have any ideas on how to improve it? On 21 May 2017 at 20:06, Chris Lamb wrote: > Source: cronutils > Version: 1.9-1 > Severity: important > Justification: fails to build from source > User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org >

Bug#863072: cronutils: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

2017-05-21 Thread Chris Lamb
Source: cronutils Version: 1.9-1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear Maintainer, cronutils's testsuite appears to use method