[Debichem-devel] Bug#1058454: Bug#1058454: Bug#1058454: prody: autopkgtest regression on i386

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi,

On 2025-11-28 13:04, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 12:16:57PM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> 
>>> I did not mark this bug as fixed at the time, because implicitly it
>>> would mean it's also fixed in unstable, but I could not check that
>>> because the package also failed to build in unstable for other reasons.
>>
>> Thanks for letting me know. I have updated the package to the newest
>> upstream release (2.6.1) and can no longer reproduce the problem (checked on
>> i386 porterbox). I do not know what made the issue disappear and will not
>> have enough time to investigate it, but the important thing is that it is
>> resolved, and autopkgtests will let us know if it reoccurs.
> 
> My bet would be different floating point code from glibc, but I agree
> that as far as it works, figuring out why exactly it works now is more
> like a task for bug archeologists (which I sometimes become when I'm
> curious, but in no way it's something that should be put on other's
> todo lists).

I agree that sometimes bug archeologists is fun.

>> As said, feel free to add it if you see the benefit.
> 
> I am really a late adopter of Salsa CI, and I guess there are several
> different ways to approach it.
> 
> My idea of using Salsa CI is to achieve a pipeline which is all green,
> excluding if necessary some tests which might not work, and from that
> point forward, try not to regress.
> 
> I will try adding a salsa-ci.yml to prody and see what happens (and
> will commit if I see it works well enough).

Sure, feel free to do that.

> In the meantime, please feel free to upload if you have 2.6.1 ready.

Uploaded. I will take a look at the remaining bugs in prody later.

Best wishes,
Andrius