On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 11:38:35AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:

I have two questions.

1. Is there a way to override the 3 hour time limit for Debian CI for a particular package?

No.

2. Would there be objections to reconsidering the 3 hour default time limit for all packages?

We could allow longer timeouts on a per-package basis and on maintainer request, like we handle having packages tested with KVM instead of
containers.

This would need the code to actually support this to be written first,
though. We need to be careful with this to prevent packages with
long-running test suites from causing a DoS on the infrastructure.

I would hate to have to disable autopkgtest for some or all architectures on these packages, as the output has been beneficial. But I also don’t want to
prevent migration to testing just because the tests are timing out.

Yes, I agree.

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On Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:41:16 PM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote:

We could allow longer timeouts on a per-package basis and on maintainer request, like we handle having packages tested with KVM instead of containers.

This would need the code to actually support this to be written first, though. We need to be careful with this to prevent packages with
long-running test suites from causing a DoS on the infrastructure.

I agree. Being able to allow longer timeouts on a per-package basis sounds like a good solution. Who would be the correct people to talk to about enabling such functionality?

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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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On Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:31:41 PM Mountain Standard Time Paul Gevers wrote:

An alternative that can be done now: the timeout of 2:47h is per test
stanza in d/t/control (see autopkgtest(1). For some test suites it's not hard to split the test suite over multiple stanza. The overal timeout is 8.5h (except on riscv64 where it's currently doubled).

Thank you for that information. I did not know that there were separate timeouts for individual stanzas vs. the entire test suite. I think I should be able to split my tests into separate stanzas and I expect the overall timeout of 8.5h should be sufficient for anything I am currently working on.

There might be other packages for which this is still not sufficient, but for me I don’t think any other adjustments are necessary.

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soren@debian.org
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