Subject: bug#73036: 29.4; Test failure in erc-networks--id-sort-buffers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:05:05 +0300

> From: "J.P." <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:44:02 -0700
> 
> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> Author of shoddy test here. Apologies for the annoyance.
> 
> Ulrich Mueller <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Looking at the code, the test creates three buffers, then sorts them by
> > time. Clock resolution on HPPA appears to be 4 milliseconds, so it is
> > not unlikely that the buffers end up with exactly the same timestamp and
> > sorting fails.
> 
> Makes sense to me.
> 
> > Attached patch fixes the problem. Is it OK to install it on the emacs-30
> > branch?
> 
> I guess that's up to the Emacs maintainers (Eli Cc'd).

It's okay to install these test fixes on the emacs-30 release branch.

Thanks.