Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

Hi Graham and thanks for bringing this up again. Il 07/04/2018 18:13, Graham Inggs ha scritto: > Hi > > This situation seems to get worse with each new version of nodejs. > > In Ubuntu, where autopkgtests are run for every release architecture, > node-liftoff failed on armhf [1] and arm64 [2]

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

Hi Graham, > > I'm pretty hardcore on tests being determinstic, so merely increasing > > the wait time feels especially gross to me. :) > > Would you please explain your objection to timeouts in tests? Well, we should probably separate the cases of using /timing/ in tests as part of, say,

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

Hi Chris On 7 April 2018 at 18:22, Chris Lamb wrote: > Well, just to be 100% clear, I don't propose increasing the timeout at > all: I'm pretty hardcode on tests being determinstic so merely increasing > the wait time feels especially gross to me. :) Would you please explain

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

[Resending including 853...@bugs.debian.org in CC this time..] Hi Graham, Thanks for the followup. > Chris, you wrote "...the test would still be unreliable whatever value > you choose", can you propose something other than increasing the > timeout? Well, just to be 100% clear, I don't propose

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

Hi This situation seems to get worse with each new version of nodejs. In Ubuntu, where autopkgtests are run for every release architecture, node-liftoff failed on armhf [1] and arm64 [2] since the upload of nodejs 8.9.3. We resorted to increasing the timeout from 5000 to 1 in debian/rules

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 control: severity -1 important > In the log you attached this line:  > [0m Error: timeout of 5000ms exceeded > looks different from what you report in the bug: >  [0m Error: timeout of 1ms exceeded > The

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#853035: node-liftoff: Non-determistically FTBFS due to unreliable timing in tests

Source: node-liftoff Version: 2.3.0-2 Severity: serious 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, node-liftoff's testsuite appears to use method