The autopkgtests for src:gnome-chemistry-utils usually take seconds, but
sometimes one of them blocks until the ~ 3 hour timeout is hit. For
whatever reason this seems to be more common on s390x.

When this happens, it blocks migrations to testing: for example, at the
moment it's preventing glib2.0 from migrating.

Having looked into this, I'm not at all sure that these tests are
actually doing anything useful.  The test command for each one is
something like:

    xvfb-run -a /usr/bin/gchemcalc &

but if gchemcalc crashed (perhaps a segfault or a missing library
dependency), would that test actually even fail?

As an experiment I tried changing the test to:

Test-Command: xvfb-run -a sh -c 'echo Pretending to crash >&2; kill -ABRT $$' &
Depends: xauth, xvfb, gcu-bin
Features: test-name=run-sigabrt
Restrictions: allow-stderr

and it trivially "passes":

which I think means these tests do not meet
https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt §6a.

I think the timeouts might have more to do with autopkgtest not always
being able to kill the leaked background xvfb-run process; possibly
xvfb-run is blocking signals?

    smcv

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