Re: nss security update package ready for review
On 2016-11-30 23:59:32, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:03:39PM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2016-11-30 16:46:17, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > There were no test suite before the update so I could not tell if it was a
>> > regression or not.
>>
>> I just figured out how to hook up the test suite, and it fails:
>
> (Posting this here again since I'm not sure everybody working on nss in
> LTS is aware of it):
>
> We have patches to enable it during the build here:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806639
Sigh... I missed that in my research. I ended up with a similar patch
here.
> There's also more stuff like some minimal autopkgtests here:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ease-lts;users=debian-lts@lists.debian.org
interesting...
>> Tests summary:
>> --------------
>> Passed: 8282
>> Failed: 17
>> Failed with core: 0
>> ASan failures: 0
>> Unknown status: 0
>>
>> It takes a looong time to run here. I thought it was in a loop for a
>> while there.
>>
>> I am not sure what to do next here - maybe I could test against the pre
>> 3.26 version from wheezy and see if the tests fail similarly...
>
> Do we really intend to track nss upstream from now on:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?Bug=824872
>
> I remember the nss testsuite to run cleanly last time I checked a couple
> of months ago so we should IMHO investigate.
Okay. One problem with the test suite is that it generates so much
output that it's basically impossible to see what the failure *was* -
I'll need to log all this and run the test suite again...
a.
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