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

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Shall I run the current package on our big amd64 host to check if it
> fails there and that part of problem is solved? I mean, I understand
> that there was a real problem with hosts that have lots of CPU's and I
> assume you support amd64.

My guess is that kmc was developed under and designed for amd64 and it
runs there.  That's explicitly the case for the latest upstream version
which will not support any arm* out of the box (if I understand Étienne
correctly).  I do not see any need to stress test our hardware with
some software that will be outdated soonish.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


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