** Description changed: + SRU Template: + + [Impact] + + * node-tap autopkgtests intermittently fail due to timeouts + depending on the load in the server running the tests. + + * This does not provide reliable test results, misleading + the analysis of new code changes to this package, or + other packages which this package depends on (as that + triggers a re-test for this package). + + * This requires manual effort to re-trigger tests just to + verify whether the errors are reproducible/intermittent. + + [Test Case] + + * It's possible to reproduce the failures due to short + timeout values by manually specifying shorter timeouts + than the defaults, either via TAP_TIMEOUT environment + variable or '-t TIMEOUT' parameter, and in setTimeout() + calls (e.g., in test/spawn.js); + Then run the test suite in either one of these methods: + + * Run tests like 'debian/rules override_dh_auto_test'. + + * Run autopkgtest locally. + + * The autopkgtest server log history shows a pattern of + failures due to timeouts, with a different test being + hit/stopped (and the following tests planned in the + .js file not being run) each time, which can be used + as evidence of how the errors look like. + + [Regression Potential] + + * Low. The changes only affect build-time execution, + not anything that has runtime changes. + + * The differences in build dependencies between the + original build and a rebuild with this patch should + not be carried in the package, as nodejs modules + should mostly be binary-indepedent/arch-all, thus not make + it into the package but rather are sourced at runtime. + + Bug Description: + The node-tap package in Bionic usually fails autopkgtests with several intermittent errors caused by timeouts, that depend directly on the load of the autopkgtest server. It's very difficult to reproduce these failures on a local computer that is lightly-loaded, but it's possible to force them to happen very similarly to the autupkgtest error logs by manually decreasing/specifying the timeout values. The same package in Cosmic passes all autopkgtests, and the code differences between both releases include 2 commits in Debian that cause the timeout values to be increased. So, pull those 2 commits from Debian & Cosmic to Bionic, and allow the tests to finish properly, so to have more reliable autopkgtest results.
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