Subject: Disable khal test suite? (was Re: [bug#44197] [PATCH] gnu: khal: Update to 0.10.2.)
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:39:00 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 08:37:24AM +0100, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote:
> Thanks for taking care of this,

Thanks for taking care of this package I use every day! :)

> commit 503169b39de09e3c3969bb2dc92464f054d79560
> Author: Lars-Dominik Braun <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Sat Oct 24 20:17:48 2020 +0200
> 
>     gnu: khal: Update to 0.10.2.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/calendar.scm (khal): Update to 0.10.2.
>     [source]: Drop upstream patches.
>     [arguments]: Drop substitute* for bug fixed upstream and ignore failing
>     test in 'check.
>     [inputs]: Add missing inputs.

Pushed as 21955a54da2bc171f2745486f62aceeacea7993a.

I wonder, should we disable the test suite entirely? In my experience,
it's not reliable — different parts of it will succeed or fail on
subsequent runs, or on different computers, or when verbose output is
enable, etc. The upstream bug tracker is full of reports like that.

For example:

https://github.com/pimutils/khal/issues/860