Re: parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2021-10-30 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner writes: > In a debian stretch neither gnu parallel nor moreutils parallel > successfully completes the tests. Logs are attached. One thing worth > investigating is that gnu parallel inside timeout doesn't really work > right, since it says something like I can't figure out if this

Re: parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2019-05-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2019-05-20 19:49:02 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > However, i tried selectively upgrading all the versions of all of these > packages *except for gdb* to the version in buster (or to the version > from backports, in the case of the kernel). and i'm *still* seeing the > problem on the s

Re: parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2019-05-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2019-05-20 13:27:03 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > c) we should avoid the timeout hanging :) I dug into this today, and i'm reporting back my findings. I have what appears to be a fix (see below), but i don't understand it, so i'm not advocating for it. To be clear: my two test case

Re: parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2019-05-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2019-05-20 21:55:05 +0300, Tomi Ollila wrote: > On Mon, May 20 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> b) we should have a clearer sense of which tests completed and which >> did not >> […] >> if someone else wants to >> improve the test suite to handle (b) that would be great. > > Simplest

Re: parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2019-05-20 Thread Tomi Ollila
On Mon, May 20 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Thanks for catching this, Bremner. > > On Fri 2019-05-10 07:45:18 -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> In a debian stretch neither gnu parallel nor moreutils parallel >> successfully completes the tests. > > I have confirmed this misbehavior on debian st

Re: parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2019-05-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for catching this, Bremner. On Fri 2019-05-10 07:45:18 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > In a debian stretch neither gnu parallel nor moreutils parallel > successfully completes the tests. I have confirmed this misbehavior on debian stretch with moreutils parallel. on stretch (with gmime 3.0

parallel tests broken on Debian stable

2019-05-10 Thread David Bremner
In a debian stretch neither gnu parallel nor moreutils parallel successfully completes the tests. Logs are attached. One thing worth investigating is that gnu parallel inside timeout doesn't really work right, since it says something like parallel: SIGTERM received. No new jobs will be started.