Re: Bug#1063648: krb5: FTBFS on arm64, armel and ppc64el with "Can't resolve hostname" in dh_auto_test

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Hi,

On 2024-07-05 09:43, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> writes:
>     Chris> Adam (adsb) points out that the test code in
>     Chris> lib/rpc/unit-test/client.c [1] uses code that does not
>     Chris> support IPv6(-only). I.e. gethostbyname for a name that has
>     Chris> no IPv4 address will fail.
> 
> So, are the builds going to unshare or not?

Yes, that's the plan, but there is still packages to fix before we can
do that, so that will still take a few weeks or months.

> given that the code is apparently quite happy to work with a hostname
> that  points to ipv4 loopback and given that  I already spent a good
> chunk of time dealing with buildd churn this month, I don't have a lot
> of love for dealing with more gratuitous environment changes entirely
> outside my control.

Your package is not able to cope with host names pointing to an IPv6 due
the use of gethostbyname in the testsuite to do the name resolution.

Switching to unshare buildds will only hide the problem. It has nothing
to do with gratuitous environment change.

Regards
Aurelien

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