Bug#1119845: bash-completion: autopkgtest failure in testing

On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:53:04 +0200 Edmund Lodewijks 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 08:38:39 -0800 "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" 
> Is it possible that these CI test timeouts might be fixed by [1e24598]?
> 
> This commit is included in upstream [release 2.17] of 31 Oct 2025 ...

I built 2.17 locally and ran the test suite a couple of times, and, 
though the test suite runs much faster, it did not fix the TIMEOUT 
errors (though every now and then the test suite ran without any errors).

A MR was created upstream [MR] that, I think, works around the issue in 
a more sustainable way, by doing a retry of the failing part of the test 
in case of a TIMEOUT. This leaves tests that fail for other reasons 
unaffected. It is not a complete fix, but I ran the test suite with this 
in place a couple of times, and the test suite did no longer error out 
(I ran it with a debug line so that I could see if the retry fired, 
which it did).

Let's see if it gets accepted upstream.


[MR]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/1722