Bug#910104: Re: [LLNL/hypre] tests regularly hang (#44)

[Drew Parsons]

On 2019-04-13 17:16, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Drew,
>> 
>> 97cd175 also had memory fixes (BigInt) which did not apply cleanly. So
>> I've removed those parts of the patch (in debian patch 
>> fix_race_condition_97cd175.patch)
> 
> There's quite some white-space changes (and one comment) in one of the
> patches. For a next time I would appreciate it if those were removed as
> it makes reviewing easier.


I was trying to keep as much of the upstream commit as possible, but 
fair call, if I'm decimating the patch anyway then might as well go 
whole-hog.


>> I've uploaded the 2 patches as hypre 2.15.1-5
>> 
>> They build and pass tests.  We'll need to run a barrage of tests to 
>> see
>> if they fixing the intermittent test failures.
> 
> As with python-scipy, I ran a bunch of tests (total to 21, all in
> unstable). I'll unblock it.
> 
>> If it doesn't help, the next option is to take the full transition to
>> hypre 2.16.0.
> 
> It's too late in the release to consider this option for buster. Please
> don't upload to unstable until we release buster.


Indications are positive, 22/22 tests passed.

Drew