Re: bug#76188: erc-nicks-track-faces/prioritize failure on Fedora

"J.P." <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Fedora 41 with the current master (commit
>> 4936a8d5acbfee2dee6d903400eba48cb2e3a6a7) I saw a failure with
>> erc-nicks-track-faces/prioritize, as follows, when running "make -j5". I could
>> not reproduce the problem when running just this test, so perhaps there's some
>> conflict with some other test being run at about the same time. This is a
>> machine with a slow CPU (AMD Phenom II X4 910e) so it's painful to run all the
>> tests.
>
> [...]
>
> If that and my recollection are true, I think this test needs to be
> rewritten, perhaps along with those like it. I've therefore tagged it as
> :unstable for now.
>
> Tests like this that are heavily mocked are difficult to debug without a
> reliable recipe. So unless something glaring pops out that explains the
> failure, I'll probably eventually rewrite it and related ones as higher
> level "expensive" tests, which folks don't seem to like running at home
> anyway.

I've gone ahead and rewritten the failing ones and others as expensive
tests. They now reside in test/lisp/erc/erc-scenarios-nicks-track.el on
master:

  https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=db8f469b

Thanks and closing.