Bug#932795: Ethics of FTBFS bug reporting
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Santiago Vila writes ("Bug#932795: Ethics of FTBFS bug reporting"):
>...
> On the point at issue, do these packages build in a cheap single-vcpu
> vm from some kind of cloud vm service ? ISTM that this is a much
> better argument than the one you made, if the premise is true.
>...
> - An environment with only one cpu available is supported.
>...
- An environment with at least 16 GB RAM is supported.
Not sure about the exact number, but since many packages have
workarounds for gcc or ld running into the 4 GB address space
limit on i386 it is clear that several packages wouldn't build
in an amd64 vm with only 8 GB RAM.
ISTR that some packages (machine learning?) might need more memory.
- An environment with at least 75 GB free diskspace is supported.
We do have at least one package in the archive that contains some
hacks for staying inside the 75 GB diskspace available on the amd64
buildds, and couldn't be built in a vm with even less diskspace.
> Ian.
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Adrian
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