[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] the release gods are angry at python

[Bill Janssen]

> There
> have been other tests that have also been flaky like  test_asynchat,
> test_smtplib, test_ssl, test_urllib2net, test_urllibnet,
> test_xmlrpc_net and some of the tests that use  networking.

Some of the *other* tests that use networking, I think you mean.
Sounds like networking tests in general are flaky.

>     - http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/S-390%20Debian%20trunk/builds/255/step-test/0

Unfortunately, this log has no information about why the test is
failing, and I do not have a Debian-unstable machine to try it on
(much less a six-processor IBM S/390 mainframe running Debian-unstable
-- cool!).  I'm unsure about how to make progress here.  It's
interesting to see that most of the stable buildbots running Debian
are doing so on big-endian (PPC, Sparc) hardware.

I also can't tell which branch of Python is being tested, from this
logfile.  That would be nice to add.  Is this 2.6 (known problems with
SSL) or 3.0 (no known problems with SSL)?  Is this information in the
logfile somewhere and I'm not seeing it?

Bill