Bug#954271: libsys-sigaction-perl: arm64 autopkgtest time out

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 03:20:34PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Source: libsys-sigaction-perl
> Version: 0.23-1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: timeout
 
> libsys-sigaction-perl fails its autopkgtest on arm64 due to a time out
> after 2h47. Can you please investigate the situation?
> 
> To avoid wasting lots of time on the ci.debian.net infrastructure, I
> have added your package to the ignore list for arm64.

Thanks.

The module has several upstream workarounds for arm platforms, but those
aren't used for arm64 because its $Config{archname} starts with 'aarch64'
not 'arm'.

The comments point to defects in either the arm platform or the base Perl
implementation there. I don't know if these things have been triaged on
the Perl side upstream.

Possibly we should make this arch:any to see if there are other
problematic architectures. Or just tune the test suite to skip on aarch64
as well.

Apologies for not doing a proper investigation at this time.
-- 
Niko