[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1051702: Bug#1051649: libportal: FTBFS on riscv64 due to test timeout

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags 1051649 + pending

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 00:17:31 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> libportal fails to build from source on riscv64 (and a few other slow
> architectures) with a timeout in a test
...
> After investigation, it appeared the test actually passes, but needs
> 85 seconds instead of the 60 seconds it got allocated. The
> following patch uses the --timeout-multiplier feature of meson to
> increase the timeout.

Thanks, I'll upload a similar fix after the current version has migrated
to testing (it's only 1 day off, so it would seem a shame to reset the
clock for this). I increased the timeout by a factor of 3 rather than 2,
to give some margin of error.

However, I'm concerned that this implies riscv64 might be our new slowest
release architecture, even slower than mips64el, which is going to put
it at risk of delaying migrations, security fixes and other release
stuff (as a result of builds taking a long time, arbitrary timeouts in
build-time tests becoming insufficient, or race conditions in build-time
tests being hit when they wouldn't have been seen on faster buildds).

Do you expect faster riscv64 buildds to become available by the time
trixie is the stable release, or is what we have now what we are going
to continue to have?

This might also resolve #1051702, but obviously I haven't tested on
hppa hardware to find out how long this test actually takes there,
so I'm not marking that one as pending.

    smcv