[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#909356: iwd 0.8 not compatible with NM < 1.14

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hi,

I don't think the iwd bug report is the right place to discuss about NM
test failures so I dropped the bug report from CC.

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 01:22:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 22.09.18 um 12:41 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> >> Package: iwd
> >> Version: 0.8-1
> >> Severity: serious
> >>
> >> Filing this bug report to block iwd 0.8 from migrating to testing (yet).
> >>
> >> The NetworkManager support for iwd has been updated in the 1.14 release
> >> to be compatible with the changes that has been made in iwd 0.8.
> >> Unfortunately NM 1.14 is stuck in experimental because it has testsuite
> >> failures on 2 release architectures. NM maintainer is looking for help
> >> to sort that out before uploading NM 1.14 to unstable.
> > 
> > I got build success on armel and FTBFS on amd64, smells like flaky test.
> 
> It is 100% reproducible on armel (abel). So it doesn't look flaky to me.

I quickly looked myself yesterday and came to the conclusion that the
test failure is simply an issue with sorting of the devices (no other
diff in expected/actual output). I mentioned this to mbiebl who
apparently had already discussed with upstream about similar conclusion.

I would assume the problem might be in and start looking at the function
used for sorting:
https://sources.debian.org/src/network-manager/1.14.0-1/clients/cli/devices.c/#L878
(But I don't have either time or motivation, so help welcome.)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson