Bug#1142370: experimental pseudo-excuses: "Test triggered" days after the test actually finished

"Rebecca N. Palmer" <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:22:34 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.release
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Package: release.debian.org
User: [email protected]
Usertags: britney
(if that's the wrong place, please reassign)

The experimental pseudo-excuses pages are showing many tests as "Test 
triggered", days after these tests were actually finished and had 
results on ci.debian.net.

I first noticed this on 
https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?experimental=1&package=pandas , where 
all the amd64 tests were actually finished by the time I used them to 
write https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141694#10 but 
many of them still show "Test triggered" now, nearly 3 days later. 
However, it's probably broader than just that one package: 
https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html 
currently has over 1000 "amd64: Test triggered", though it was generated 
at a time when 
https://ci.debian.net/munin/debian.net/ci-master.debian.net/debci_queue_size.html 
says the amd64 queue was essentially empty.

This can affect both tests that actually succeeded and tests that 
actually failed.  Affected pages are not totally frozen: they can update 
to show tests of a newly uploaded version, e.g. 
pymatgen-core/2026.4.7+dfsg1-7 on the pandas page.

It *probably* doesn't affect the main unstable-to-testing excuses: 
https://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html has only 20 
"amd64: Test triggered".