[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#848890: Bug#848890: Revisiting "Ubuntu strongSwan changes"

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 10:32 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Background to explain the reasoning behind the change 3/7:
> 
> Commits:
> 0af16a2 * d/rules: Set minimal TESTS_REDUCED_KEYLENGTHS
> e024f7e changelog: d/rules: Set minimal TESTS_REDUCED_KEYLENGTHS to avoid
> hanging builds
> 
> There were several cases where low entropy build environments stalled.
> This was up to an amount that sometimes builds failed with timeouts.
> 
> Obviously the more options that are enabled the more will be tested and the
> bigger the effect of this is.
> 
> Fortunately the strongswan build/test has an environment variable to control
> this behavior and if set to 1 all tests will still be run, but require much
> less entropy.
> See
> https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/DeveloperDocumentation
> for the Strongswan documentation on this option.
> 
We did enable REDUCED_KEYLENGTH at one point on !linux and !x86, but it still
wasn't enough, so we completely disabled the test suite on !x86. I'd rather
not disable more of the test suite, to be honest.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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