Bug#1086128: src:sbcl: fails to migrate to testing for too long

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Mon 02 Dec 2024 at 07:38am +01, Paul Gevers wrote:

> Hi ppc64el porters, Sean,
>
> @porters, can you please have a look at the ppc64el autopkgtest regressions
> caused by sbcl [1]?
>
> On 12/2/24 03:36, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> I don't think I can do anything about this bug.  Upstream aren't able to
>> reproduce it.  I don't think it makes sense to block sbcl's migration on
>> this.  I think that either we should ignore the cl-ironclad test failure
>> on ppc64el or remove sbcl on that architecture, if you think that would
>> be warranted.
>
> cl-ironclad *and* cl-postmodern. And the error is identical:
> no size function for object at 0x100009bf80 (widetag 0x33)

Right -- I think the error occurs when sbcl tries to load cl-ironclad,
and cl-postmodern depends on cl-ironclad, so it's essentialy the same
error.

(Though, typing this, I realise that I may have assumed this without
adequate evidence.)

>> Please let me know if you would be okay with overriding the test
>> failure.
>
> I assuming you didn't contact the ppc64el porters yet (apologies if you
> did). Shall we give them a chance to investigate?

I didn't.  Many thanks for doing so -- I'm happy to wait.

-- 
Sean Whitton