[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#845753: Possible workaround (was: Re: Help: r-cran-treescape does not build on i386, armel and armhf any more)

[Andreas Tille]

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Hi Christian,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 03:37:27PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote:
> 
> Anyway, to work around this for now, you can replace your
> dh_auto_install line (that is passed to the xvfb call)
> with the following command:
> 
>   /bin/sh -c "ulimit -S -s 200000 ; exec dh_auto_install"
> 
> Just tried it, sbuild built the package successfully on
> i386. I haven't tried armhf, but I suspect the result will
> be the same.

Since I was lacking any better idea I used this workaround and at least
downgrade the severity of the bug hereby from serious to important.  I
can confirm that all affected architectures are building now.  It might
be important to mention that after a first upload also mips64el failed
which was not affected by the problem before.  Thus in addition to the
unclear failure it seems that some randomness is involved. :-(

I have implemented the workaround only for this version.  It needs to be
explicitly restored for any new upstream version thus we will notice if
the problem persists for any later upstream versions.

In any case thanks a lot for Christian to spent this effort on the
problem

      Andreas.

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