Bug#1126585: debusine: flaky autopkgtest on ppc64el: unit-tests-server times out

Paul Gevers <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:38:33 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID	<35bd5451-c4c6-4003-9ece-9d8c42e6ed14__10206.1257742875$1769676091$gmane$org@debian.org>

Source: debusine
Version: 0.14.3
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: flaky
User: [email protected]
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64el

Dear maintainer(s),

I looked at the results of the autopkgtest of your package because it 
showed up as a regression for binutils. I noticed that it regularly 
fails on ppc64el (and once on s390x) since the upload of 0.14.3. It 
seems to hand in unit-tests-server.

Because the unstable-to-testing migration software now blocks on
regressions in testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip between
passing and failing without changes to the list of installed packages,
are causing people unrelated to your package to spend time on these
tests.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you need help and some more information
from our infrastructure.

Paul

Log for one of the 0.14.3 migration runs:
https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/debusine/testing/ppc64el/68124325/

639s [gw10] [ 99%] PASSED 
../../../../usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debusine/test/tests/test_playground.py::MemoryPlaygroundTransactionTestCaseTest::test_scenario_local_changes2 

639s [gw0] [ 99%] PASSED 
../../../../usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debusine/project/tests/test_celery.py::TestConnectWorker::test_scheduler_worker 

640s 
../../../../usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debusine/test/tests/test_playground.py::LocalPlaygroundTransactionTestCaseTest::test_scenario_instantiated 

640s [gw0] [ 99%] PASSED 
../../../../usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debusine/test/tests/test_playground.py::LocalPlaygroundTransactionTestCaseTest::test_scenario_instantiated 

10296s [gw5] [ 99%] PASSED 
../../../../usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debusine/project/tests/test_celery.py::TestConnectWorker::test_provisioner_worker 
autopkgtest [01:51:55]: ERROR: timed out

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