Debian Bug report logs - #909439
autopkgtest/debci: misleading "Version" if a new version becomes available during testing

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Package: autopkgtest; Maintainer for autopkgtest is Debian CI team <[email protected]>; Source for autopkgtest is src:autopkgtest (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "Rebecca N. Palmer" <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version autopkgtest/5.5

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Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.5

When a new version of the package under test enters the archive during a 
test run, the tests towards the end of the run may use the binaries of 
the new version, but debci lists it as a test of the old version.

If these tests fail because the new version contains a regression, this 
gives a "fail" entry for the _old_ version, and hence the false 
impression that the problem must be somewhere else.

Example: row 2018-09-20 11:04:29 of
https://ci.debian.net/packages/p/pymca/unstable/amd64/
(This is probably #909379 not a pymca regression, but this log isn't 
proof it isn't)

Possibly related to #896023 / #902027, but those are about testing vs 
unstable, while this is changes within a suite.

This is moderately unlikely, but not hugely so: for pymca (~15min of 
tests and a big enough dependency chain that it gets tested ~2x/day), 
~2% chance per upload.

I'd guess the best solution is to make this a tmpfail, as testing an 
already-superseded version is probably a waste of resources.

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