Bug#951821: gegl: FTBFS on arm*/mips* architectures; testing migration blocked

[Boyuan Yang]

X-Debbugs-CC: andreas at fatal.se

Hi Andreas,

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:05:54 +0100 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 06:23:36PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 05:21:08PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > > Hello Boyuan Yang,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your bug report.
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:23:13AM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > > > Source: gegl
> > > > Version: 0.4.18-2
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > Justification: out-of-sync unstable-to-testing
> > > > X-Debbugs-CC: jbicha at debian.org
> > > [...]
> > 
> > FWIW I might have noticed that the problem is possibly related
> > to building on a single core machine rather than an arch- or
> > machinespeed-specific problem.
> > 
> > Atleast using MESON_TESTTHREADS=1 when running the test-suite makes
> > the gegl:simple / backend-file timeout for me.
> 
> Oh, SORRY! Actually it's the opposite. When running the tests in
> parallel the backend-file test times out.
> 
> I'm disabling parallel tests via 'dh_auto_test --no-parallel' now
> but it seems there are more test failures on the archs where
> the build failed previously.
> 
> Also see the previously filed bug #888769 for more (mips-specific?)
> investigations.

Any progress on it?  If it still takes much time, I suggest we force single-
thread build first and investigate later since the current FTBFS is blocking
many packages.

-- 
Thanks,
Boyuan Yang
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