Bug#570805: [kfreebsd-*] please rebuild elfutils/sid, ignoring the 2 known testsuite failures (Re: transition: liblzma 5)
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:07:42AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 02:12:25 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> > Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:01:41 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >
> > >>> libdw1 (DWARF parser for elfutils)
> > >>
> > >> FTBFS on kfreebsd, needs a bug filed.
> > >
> > > Apparently that's #570805 (thanks, Jakub).
> >
> > That's a pair of testsuite failures due to a kernel bug and not a
> > regression in elfutils as far as I can tell.
> >
> > kfreebsd buildd admins, is it possible to schedule a rebuild with
> > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck, or would it be better to request that
> > directly in debian/rules as a temporary workaround? (Please forgive
> > my ignorance.)
> >
> I think this should be worked around in the elfutils package.
How do you suggest I work around this? I really don't like to
ignore those errors. They're the one that test the platform
specific parts.
Can I instead suggest someone looks at the kernel and fixes it?
It used to work, it works on the porter machines, it just fails
on the buidds.
Kurt
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