[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#914814: spades: FTBFS with jemalloc/experimental

[Adam Borowski]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 07:34:45AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 05:15:48PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > I'm afraid that your package fails to build with jemalloc 5.1.0-1 (currently
> > in experimental).  Transitioning to jemalloc 5 is long overdue, and some
> > packages currently carry private copies of jemalloc which does not make the
> > security and release teams happy.
> 
> Thanks for working on jemalloc update and checking its rdepends.

I'm not sure if such a transition is viable before Buster.  While the
maintainers are not a problem (they have no tuits themselves but are open to
NMUs, communicate swiftly, etc), I see problems with dependencies.  These
tend to be big prominent packages that are in a notoriously bad condition.
Those which have been kicked out of testing are not a problem but at least
neovim has an unfixed (for half a year!) FTBFS in unstable only.  That'd
make any transition of jemalloc pretty hard.
 
> > Your package is the only RB-Dep that fails to build.
> 
> Spades is originally carrying a code copy.  I'm afraid upstream will
> give the advise to use the code they are shipping which we want to
> avoid.  Could you possibly provide some patch which I could use and
> provide to upstream once tested?  Unfortunately I have no idea about
> jemalloc.

I don't have a clue about spades either -- nor really about jemalloc, for
that matter.  The latter is merely a dependency I need.

And, in this particular case, memkind needs _patched_ jemalloc, anyway.
As far as I know, this particular patch was rejected upstream.  As other
pieces of software also want that patch (eg. redis), it might be an option
to carry it in a common library -- but for now, my preliminary memkind
packaging also ships a patched copy.

Other options would be having both jemalloc3 and jemalloc5.


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