#1140884 qasync: autopkgtest regression with pytest 9.1

#1140884#5
Date:
2026-06-27 21:23:35 UTC
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Dear maintainer,

According to https://ci.debian.net data, your package qasync has an
autopkgtest regression with pytest.

The following architectures failed: amd64, arm64, i386, loong64,
ppc64el, riscv64, s390x.

Hopefully relevant excerpt from
https://ci.debian.net/packages/q/qasync/testing/amd64/72572311/
follows:

 71s =================================== FAILURES ===================================
 71s E       AssertionError: Stale reference to executor argument not collected within timeout.
 71s E       assert False is True
 71s E       AssertionError: Stale reference to executor result not collected within timeout.
 71s E       assert False is True
 71s FAILED tests/test_qthreadexec.py::test_no_stale_reference_as_argument - Asser...
 71s FAILED tests/test_qthreadexec.py::test_no_stale_reference_as_result - Asserti...
 71s ===== 2 failed, 56 passed, 1 skipped, 1 deselected, 276 warnings in 4.70s ======
 71s E: pybuild pybuild:485: test: plugin pyproject failed with: exit code=1: cd /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.v00y4wfw/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/build; python3.14 -m pytest -k 'not test_regression_bug13'
 76s =================================== FAILURES ===================================
 76s E       AssertionError: Stale reference to executor argument not collected within timeout.
 76s E       assert False is True
 76s E       AssertionError: Stale reference to executor result not collected within timeout.
 76s E       assert False is True
 76s FAILED tests/test_qthreadexec.py::test_no_stale_reference_as_argument - Asser...
 76s FAILED tests/test_qthreadexec.py::test_no_stale_reference_as_result - Asserti...
 76s ============ 2 failed, 57 passed, 1 deselected, 6 warnings in 4.01s ============
 76s E: pybuild pybuild:485: test: plugin pyproject failed with: exit code=1: cd /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.v00y4wfw/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/build; python3.13 -m pytest -k 'not test_regression_bug13'
 76s pybuild-autopkgtest: error: pybuild --autopkgtest --test-pytest -i python{version} -p "3.14 3.13" --parallel= returned exit code 13
 76s pybuild-autopkgtest: error: /tmp/K9R8OcRLpW/run pybuild-autopkgtest returned exit code 2
 76s pybuild-autopkgtest  FAIL non-zero exit status 25
 76s pybuild-autopkgtest  FAIL non-zero exit status 25