again, and now for longer (Re: Debian CI builds disabled for the moment)

[Holger Levsen]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:07:28AM -0700, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > what has changed in July is that this host was upgraded to bookworm. what
> > also has changed is that diffoscope was upgraded (constantly to the sid
> > version), though I don't see any relevant changes in changelog.
> I can't think of any recent changes to diffoscope that would cause
> this either. However, the problem could still "be" diffoscope in that
> upgrading to bookworm has meant that the many programs that diffoscope
> calls out to have been upgraded as well? Maybe these are much slower
> for some reason.

yeah, I also don't think it's diffoscope directly.

My next attempt will be to run diffoscope from bookworm, instead of running
diffoscope from sid in a schroot.
 
> Is there a way to see what diffoscope is up to? (the child process
> tree? strace?)

sadly not, this would need to be scripted somehow, as the machine is too loaded
for anything interactive when this happens. also, 99% of the time diffoscope
runs just fine... (guesstimated). 


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