[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#819282: wheezy-pu: package openldap/2.4.31-2+deb7u2

[Ryan Tandy]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: wheezy
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

Hi debian-release,

The last update of openldap in wheezy-security has never built on 
powerpc. I got access to the porterbox and found that the ppc64 kernel 
in jessie (presumably the buildds run the same kernel) uses a 64KB page 
size, while the MDB backend in wheezy only works with 4KB pages.

This limitation has been resolved [ITS#7713] in jessie, but the changes 
are not trivial to backport, and I'm very concerned about regressing all 
arches if I were to make a mistake. Therefore I'm proposing that we 
disable the test suite on powerpc so that the package can build.

I have built the proposed package on wheezy under qemu-system-ppc and 
run the entire test suite to ensure it passes. I also built it on the 
powerpc porterbox, installed the binaries on the qemu VM, and performed 
some additional manual testing. Of course I've also done my usual 
pre-upload testing (on amd64, in a clean wheezy chroot).

Would you consider allowing this change into wheezy?

[ITS#7713]: http://www.openldap.org/its/?findid=7713

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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