Re: zalign: autopkgtest failure on 32 bit architectures: Segmentation fault

[Mohd Bilal <rmb@envs.net>]

On 8/8/22 18:05, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> On 8/8/22 5:50 PM, Mohd Bilal wrote:
> > Hello Team,
> >
> > I took a look at this and it seems the upstream[1] is not active 
> > anymore and Ubuntu already has a long standing bug report[2] regarding 
> > the same issue which hasn't seen any progress yet.
>
> I tried to add autopkgtests to zalign long ago, and if I remember 
> correctly it was segfaulting
> on some data on amd64 itself.
>
> > So can we skip the tests for the failing architectures ?
>
> We should instead ask for _removal of this package_. Same version since 
> 9 years and upstream
> is dead too.

Makes sense. So shall I file a removal request for this package ?

> > [1] - https://code.launchpad.net/zalign
> > [2] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/zalign/+bug/1174235

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