Bug#1014286: perl/experimental: FTBFS on mips64el: test failures

[Niko Tyni]

Control: severity -1 normal

On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 10:41:16PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 04:29:22PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Source: perl
> > Version: 5.36.0-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: ftbfs
> > User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: perl-5.36-transition
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
> > 
> > The perl package in experimental fails to build from source
> > on mips64el.
> > 
> >   https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=perl&suite=experimental
> > 
> > It looks like the perl binary dies with SIGSEGV in thread related tests
> > during the test suite. This happened twice on different buildds.
> > 
> > I'm running a test build now on eller.d.o to see if it's reproducible.
> 
> The package builds fine for me on eller, though it failed twice in the
> same way on the buildds (mipsel-osuosl-0[13]).
> 
> @debian-mips: any ideas? Could somebody please check if the package
> builds for you?

We now have two successful builds on mips64el buildds, so presumably
this is not a regression in perl.

Lowering the severity for now.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org