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[Yun Peng <pcloudy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My feeling is that this problem is probably fixed in a newer Bazel version,
so it could be automatically solved if we can package Bazel 5 or 6, but of
course, that's not trivial work.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:04 PM Olek Wojnar <olek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi hc,
>
> Thanks for helping to start the conversation!
>
>
> On February 21, 2023 2:38:14 PM UTC, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >If the test passes regularly, and just sometimes fails under the same
> conditions, I would consider disabling it in autopkgtest rather than have
> it not make it into bookworm.  The perfect is the enemy of the good.
>
> Unfortunately, the test fails pretty regularly now. This behavior started
> when we moved to OpenJDK17. That makes sense since 'UseParallelOldGC' was
> valid prior to that.
>
> I *have* temporarily disabled the Java tests [1]. As you said, to not hold
> back the package due to a possibly flaky test. But my concern is that this
> is actually an issue with how Bazel uses Java rather than a flaky test.
> Again, I'd be happy to be wrong about that. :)
>
> -Olek
>
> [1]
> https://salsa.debian.org/bazel-team/bazel-bootstrap/-/commit/1c90621d7b9b5d44d01b91dabb04645a20273ca8
>
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