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Since 7.20181121 Debian has been seeing test suite failures, on the mips autobuilders and on the amd64 CI infrastructure, but not on the amd64 autobuilders.
With 7.20181205 I was not able to reproduce the mips failure on a porterbox. Instead, a bunch of different tests failed. I have not yet had time to try 7.20181121 on a porterbox.
I attempted to reproduce the failure on a mips and could not; instead, four different tests failed in a different way.
However, the most recent failures on the CI infrastructure and the mips autobuilders looks to be the same set of tests that have failed. So I am inclined to think that the problem is not a flaky test.
The most recent failures on the CI infrastructure and the mips autobuilders looks to be the same set of tests that have failed.
I won't have time to investigate for a few days but I thought that I would at least get this bug filed.
- [mips autobuilder log](https://spwhitton.name/pub/git-annex-dec18/mipsbuildd.txt)
- [mips log](https://spwhitton.name/pub/git-annex-dec18/mipsbuildd.txt)
- [mips reproduction attempt log](https://spwhitton.name/pub/git-annex-dec18/mipsporterbox.txt)
- [CI log](https://spwhitton.name/pub/git-annex-dec18/debci.txt)
I am inclined to think that there are several bugs here: the test suite is overly sensitive to its environment and can fail in different ways in different environments. What's mysterious is why all this started happening so recently.
It seems unlikely to me that anyone has time to fix these bugs before the upcoming Debian freeze. Getting git-annex v7.x into buster is a priority. Maybe the test suite should be disabled during the package build, since it's flaky? I'd like to hear Joey's opinion on doing that.
--spwhitton