Bug#1103406: ogdi-dfsg: flaky autopkgtest on arm64

From	Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
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Subject	Bug#1103406: ogdi-dfsg: flaky autopkgtest on arm64
Date	2025-04-17 12:20 +0200
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Hi Bas,

On 17-04-2025 10:53, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Runner with unreliable network should not satisfy the needs-internet 
> requirement.

I agree with you on this, the problem is of course how to define 
unreliable network and where the border should be.

> I've made the wget and tar commands verbose, but that doesn't solve the 
> problem.

Thanks. It will help to *determine* if workers are really unreliable in 
networking. For me this and this package, it's currently just a 
hypothesis. Also, I'm not seeing this a lot on arm64, last time I ran 
into unreliable network issues in tests was at least several months ago. 
An additional option is to mark a test as skippable and exit 77 if the 
downloading (after retries) fails.

> Removing the autopkgtest or excluding unreliable architectures will be 
> needed instead. I don't really want to do either, but nuking the 
> autopkgtest from the package resolves this class of issues forever.

Let's work together to improve the situation. I understand this is 
frustrating from your side, but autopkgtesting has been a great 
improvement for Debian release management so it would be sad if for this 
reason you would remove them.

To avoid having to do this on the package side, I (ci.d.n maintainer hat 
on) could add your package to the ci.d.n reject_list until we have a way 
to disable needs-internet testing per host and can direct tests that 
need it to hosts which support needs-internet [1]. We currently can only 
switch needs-internet per architecture and I consider that a too big 
hammer for arm64 (release team member hat on).

Paul

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debci/-/issues/166

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