[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#1151576: libqb: temporarily disable running the build time test suite (or failing test) on loong64

[Ferenc Wágner]

Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> writes:

> src:libqb currently fails to build on loong64 buildds because of a
> linux kernel OOPS. See
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1145111#35

Hi Paul,

I've been keeping an eye on that bug since the latest libqb upload.
Honestly, I don't understand why it affects the loong64, powerpc, ppc64
and sparc64 buildds only.

> As migration of libqb is stalled because of this, can you maybe upload
> a new version that either doesn't run the test suite on loong64? Or if
> you know which test is causing the OOPS, maybe skip that one on
> loong64.

Credential passing over UNIX sockets is core functionality of libqb.
Skipping the libqb build time (and autopkg-) tests would certainly be
possible, but I'm worried that the built library would trigger the same
OOPS running the tests of the entire HA stack above it (kronosnet,
corosync, pacemaker, and so on).  The current libqb package (2.0.9-1+b1)
apparently did not fail the latest corosync build for example, but like
above, I don't understand why and thus I don't know what to expect from
disabling the tests.

Can you perhaps provide some additional insight here?
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.