[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1022788: cockpit: FTBFS on armel/mipsel/mips64el: dh_auto_test failures

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Michael, hello Lis,

Michael Biebl [2022-10-26  1:41 +0200]:
> cockpit seems to fail its test suite on the aforementioned architectures

Thanks for the report!

> on armel:
> ~~~~~~~~~
> Bail out! GLib-FATAL-WARNING: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
>
> (test-channelresponse:13227): GLib-WARNING **: 11:53:58.590: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
> **

Argh, this keeps haunting us. We already tried to fix that in [1] and [2], but
no way. Why must glib be so unpredictable? 😢

Lis, WDYT about just running this particular check in upstream CI (env var or
so?), and not during downstream `make check`?

Thanks,

Martin

[1] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/17728
[2] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/17755