Bug#710696: libsoup2.4: FTBFS with test failures

[Thorsten Glaser]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort dixit:

>I see timeout-test is failing there as well. That shouldn't be because the arch
>is slow. There's probably a bug somewhere, maybe libsoup, that only manifests in
>sparc and m68k. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660581

Ah okay.

>I just tried today to debug it in sparc but there's no valgrind there and I
>didn't get very far. Can you have a look at it and see if you figure what's
>going on?

Hm, I think valgrind isn’t ported to most platforms, but considering
what it does…

I see it says something about SSL handshakes. Does it use (non)gnutls
for that? If so, there’s a known issue about that on m68k; basically,
the handshake easily takes a minute or more in production (less if
you don’t use the full ca-certificates list, but not much); upstream
doesn’t seem to have any ideas, and the maintainers defer to upstream:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k/10653/focus=10757

Otherwise… I’ve never even *heard* of libsoup until I tried to break
the Gtk-related circular-B-D cycles, last year, so I am afraid I’d
not even know where to *begin* looking at it…

bye,
//mirabilos
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