[Debian-iot-maintainers] Migration blocked by tests of depending package

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Joachim,

On 25-10-2024 07:22, Joachim Zobel wrote:
> The migration of our package mosquitto is blocked by failing
> autopkgtests of the depending package node-mqtt on s390x (See [1]). I
> have reported this as a bug for the failing depending package [2].


Thanks for reporting. To be fair, the s390x host of ci.d.n is having 
some issues the last couple of days because the host (from the provider 
side) is overcommitted [3]. I have updated the s390x setup to use /tmp 
on tmpfs (with lxc on /tmp) to at least avoid io waiting, which has 
improved the situation somewhat. Having said that, node-mqtt already 
failed several times before we had issues, so it might be flaky.

> We are facing two issues with this:
> 1. We would like to move to testing soon as the release fixes CVE-2024-
> 8376.


Reaching out to the Release Team is appropriate in that case (consider 
that done).

> 2. I am unable to reproduce the failing test since there is no working
> --boot option for autopkgtest and and I can't find any info on how to
> run qemu for that architecture.


I don't understand the remark in the first part of the sentence. Can you 
elaborate?

Paul

> [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mosquitto
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085865

[3] 
https://ci.debian.net/munin/ci-worker-s390x-01/ci-worker-s390x-01/cpu.html
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