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

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/labaxter/sys-sigaction/issues/2
Control: tags -1 buster bullseye sid

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:06:47PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.
>...

In Debian the test hangs since buster, but succeeds in stretch:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/buster/arm64/libsys-sigaction-perl.html

libsys-sigaction-perl hasn't changed since stretch.

Someone else recently reported the same issue elsewhere also for arm64,
see the forwarded URL above.

> Niko

cu
Adrian