Bug#699818: pre-approval for pu: eglibc - timer_settime broken on kfreebsd-amd64
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:23:22PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
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> That looks okay. In terms of the other suggested updates, as a
> non-release architecture for wheezy, hurd-specific patches aren't really
> appropriate for a stable update.
Perhaps not appropriate to upload just for Hurd, but hurd-specific
patches that don't touch other arches also seem harmless. I'm happy
to back them out, though, if it's a sticking point.
> * debian/testsuite-checking/compare.sh: Disable failing the build on test
> regressions to ease the pain of ongoing stable/security maintenance.
This has historically always been done for stable releases. I'm not
going to argue if that's right or wrong, just history. Again, happy
to back this one out, and let the security team actually deal with
potential regressions from kernel changes and other fun on buildds.
(For instance, there's a patch in sid that fixes a test that fails
only on >> 3.11 kernels, which could eventually hit a wheezy security
build... This sort of fragility is why the testsuite is usually made
non-fatal for stable, because it's frustrating to have to fix tests
that don't relate to the changes you just uploaded for).
... Adam
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