[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2979: Debian package installation is unreliable and spuriously fails CI jobs

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#2979: Debian package installation is unreliable and spuriously fails CI jobs
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     Reporter:  exarkun             |      Owner:
         Type:  defect              |     Status:  closed
     Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  dev-infrastructure  |    Version:  1.12.1
   Resolution:  wontfix             |   Keywords:
Launchpad Bug:                      |
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Changes (by exarkun):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 CI got refactored to build Debian (and other) Docker images *first* and
 only once they have been built successfully to use them to run tests.

 It's still possible for Docker image builds to fail... But image builds
 aren't in the critical path for development.  I guess we could add some
 kind of retry logic in the Docker image building code so that failures
 like the above don't cause an image build to fail ... but that strikes me
 as quite low priority since these failures don't get in the way of any
 development now (unless they happen repeatedly so many times that we
 eventually end up testing against ancient versions of Debian/whatever that
 no longer reflect what users will really be using)...

 I'm going to call this "good enough" and say we won't do the extra work to
 try to avoid these failures *ever* failing an image build job.

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