[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#969804: Bug#969804: bart: autopkgtest should be marked superficial

Uecker, Martin Martin.Uecker at med.uni-goettingen.de
Sat Sep 19 18:50:34 BST 2020


Am Samstag, den 19.09.2020, 17:09 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 01:15:47PM +0000, Uecker, Martin wrote:
> > > The severity on this bug can be downgraded, however the FTBFS on s390x
> > > remains a release critical bug, since s390x is a release architecture.
> > > 
> > > Either the FTBFS gets fixed, or removal of the s390x binaries can be requested.
> > 
> > I wonder whether we should simply turn off all tests on
> > non-x86-64 architectures.
> > 
> > These usually turn up issues with the toolchain which
> > then cause additional work for me although the bug is
> > elsewhere.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is a good idea in general.  If
> we can be sure that for s390x there is an issue with the
> tool chain I could imagine something like:
> 
>   if build on s390x
>       run_test || true # FIXME: explanation why we ignore test
>   else
>       run_test
> 
> I do not think that ignoring the tests on all architectures
> is a good idea.

Without any way to investigate it is difficult
to be sure.

But we run very comprehensive tests upstream. So it is
actually very likely that all problems we can catch in
Debian (and not already earlier) are problems
with the tool chain on some architecture.


Best,
Martin






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