Bug#771148: (pre-upload) unblock: pypy/2.4.0+dfsg-2

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed

On 2014-11-27 03:42, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please consider unblocking the follow upload for package pypy:
> 
> There is an FTBFS (#771137) with the current gcc in sid (that I only
> noticed when preparing this request), so we should definitely do an
> upload, fixing that.
> 
> There have been a few issues reported in PyPy 2.4, fixed post-release,
> that are probably worth cherry-picking into jessie. They haven't been
> reported in Debian's BTS, but even subtle interpreter bugs tend to be
> important.
> 
> The one that caught my attention was a segfault, if one runs the hy test
> suite. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pypy/13039
> 
> These also appear interesting:
> * https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issue/1902 (one of the two test-cases
>   has been fixed)
> * https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issue/1872 (although we don't provide
>   have a packaged numpypy in Debian, yet)
> * https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issue/1887
> 
> I am proposing the following:
> 
> [...]

Approved, please upload to unstable and remove the moreinfo tag once it
has been accepted.

Thanks,
~Niels