[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#954270: [RFS] kmc: arm64 autopkgtest time out

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Paul,

just a general question:  The general overview page like

   https://ci.debian.net/packages/k/kmc/

does not seem to be updated while the specific architecture
pages like

   https://ci.debian.net/packages/k/kmc/testing/armhf/

shows the issue.  I remember I was asking in connection with augur
(where the overview page is featuring  8.0.0-2 pass  for amd64/unstable
which is very outdated).  Is there any chance to fix this soon?

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:37:12AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: retitle -1 kmc: autopgktest times out on multimulticore hosts
> 
> >> multiple debci-workers. That's common on our arm64 workers too.
> > 
> >> [1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/k/kmc/testing/amd64/
> > 
> > I suppose easy solution would be to cap the cores count of the
> > program while working with upstream to find a proper fix.  Will
> > see what can be done about it.
> 
> It seems that this didn't work on our armhf worker:
> https://ci.debian.net/packages/k/kmc/testing/armhf/
> 
> The amd64 run didn't happen on the big box.

In the kmc case I'm seriously wondering whether we should restrict
the architectures to those that are relevant in practice.  It seems
to be in line with upstream and I'm tempted to follow Étienne's
suggestion to upgrade to kmc 3.x which does not even build on armhf
any more and remove the package for the non-building architectures.

Étienne, would you mind pushing your patches to Git to proceed with
this plan?

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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