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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: mdanalysis@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:mdanalysis
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package mdanalysis

[ Reason ]

mdanalysis/2.9.0-8 provides an important patch that removes a source of
test flakiness.

[ Impact ]

If this patch is not allowed into trixe, the flaky test will cause
debci testing for trixie to regularly and randmonly report failed tests.

[ Tests ]

Upstream provides extensive testing, which is in fact is the problem
addressed here. One of their tests (test_distance) is consistently
flaky and is skipped in this package release. With that, 2.9.0-8 is
more consistently passing debci tests.

debci switched off testing on riscv64, which is why this unblock
request is needed.

[ Risks ]

Negligible risk. 2.9.0-7 is already in testing. This patch simply
removes a regularly failing test, so should make testing in trixie
more reliable.


[ Checklist ]
[x ] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
[x ] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[x ] attach debdiff against the package in testing

[ Other info ]
mdanalysis has a generally flaky collection of tests. Other tests
might continue to randomly fail from time, but debci tests are more
reliable with this patch skipping test_distance

unblock mdanalysis/2.9.0-8

diff -Nru mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/changelog mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/changelog --- mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/changelog 2025-04-23 10:50:06.000000000 +0200
+++ mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/changelog 2025-05-11 23:44:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+mdanalysis (2.9.0-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * skip test_distances, since NSGrid is flaky and causes distance
+ tests to often (randomly) fail, see upstream Issue #4906.
+ Closes: #1104387
+
+ -- Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> Sun, 11 May 2025 23:44:46 +0200
+
mdanalysis (2.9.0-7) unstable; urgency=medium

* skip all parallel tests, including multiprocess tests.
diff -Nru mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/rules mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/rules
--- mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/rules 2025-04-23 10:50:06.000000000 +0200
+++ mdanalysis-2.9.0/debian/rules 2025-05-11 23:44:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -9,13 +9,17 @@
# parallel and openmp tests are unstable, often timing out
SKIP_TEST_LIST += parallel multiprocess openmp

+# gsd tends to induce test time-outs, https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/issues/4209
+SKIP_TEST_LIST += gs