[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1001614: odil: FTBFS on armhf: 91 - MoveSCU_Move (Failed)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Julien,

Am Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 07:02:40PM +0100 schrieb Julien Lamy:
> Hi list,
> I tried to solve #1001614 but I can't reproduce the error: on an armhf box,
> sbuild environment targeting sid, no error occurs. Since the build error is
> supposed to happen during network-related unit tests in which I'm starting a
> server listening on a fixed port of the loopback interface, I'm suspecting
> that something specific to the build environment interferes.
> 
> I can think of three possible ways to go:
> 1. Skip all network-related tests. The networking tests are run during CI
> upstream, but on x86 only.

This is definitely a valid way to go.

> 2. Have the server listen on a random port. The error may however pop back
> randomly.
> 3. Restrict the architectures to avoid armhf.

I personally think that this software is not used on armhf.  Well,
sometimes those rarely used architectures are some means to detect
some hidden issues.  But if you can be sure that's not the case
the solution is also valid in my eyes.
 
> Which one would you advise? Is there a fourth one, since none of those seem
> good?

May be I did not understood 2. correctly but 1. and 3. are fine for
me.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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