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RE: src:exempi: fails to migrate to testing for too long: FTBFS on s390x



Hi Paul,

 

Setting the environment variable ATOPACCT to empty value disables this issue.

Please use this workaround in the caller script of atop till we get a final fix.

 export ATOPACCT=""

 

 

The behaviour is described in the source as below:

 

                /*

                ** when a particular environment variable is present, atop should

                ** use a specific accounting-file (as defined by the environment

                ** variable) or should use no process accounting at all (when

                ** contents of environment variable is empty)

                */

 

 

-Dipak

 

From: Dipak Zope1 <Dipak.Zope1@ibm.com>
Date: Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at 3:28 PM
To: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>, 1018224@bugs.debian.org <1018224@bugs.debian.org>, debian-s390 <debian-s390@lists.debian.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: src:exempi: fails to migrate to testing for too long: FTBFS on s390x

Apologies for late response. It looks like the issue is related to the synchronization between atop and atopacctd. I am looking into it further and will keep this thread updated. I am looking forward to have a fix for this for s390x. ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍

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Apologies for late response. It looks like the issue is related to the synchronization between atop and atopacctd. I am looking into it further and will keep this thread updated. 

 

I am looking forward to have a fix for this for s390x.

 

-Dipak

 

 

On 30/08/22, 12:44 AM, "Paul Gevers" <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:

Hi Michael

 

On 29-08-2022 14:23, Michael Biebl wrote:

> As you are probably aware, this issue is known and tracked in [1].

 

Which I added as a blocker and mentioned in my message, so yes.

 

> The

> package FTBFS after enabling the test suite. I raised this issue

> upstream but there is no real interest/motivation [2] on their part to

> address these (most likely endianess related) issues.

> So I informed the s390x porters as well but got not feedback so far.

 

Ack, I saw the latter part.

 

> To me it seems it's better to not continue ship a known broken package

> on s390x and think a partial architecture removal is probably the better

> alternative.

 

If you think the package indeed is severely broken, then removal sounds

best. If its broken in some less common use cases, it may be OK to leave

it for now (skipping those tests on 390x) and let the porters have a

look when they have time.

 

> Let me know what you think

 

It all depends on how broken it is. If you would consider the bugs found

by the tests RC, then removal is the better choice unless a porter steps

up to fix it. If the bugs would be important at most, than skipping

broken tests on s390x sounds like the better option. Removal bugs are

hard to time predict.

 

Paul

 

PS: I would not disable building on s390x if you have the test suite

finding out severe problems (as the d/control file doesn't have negated

architecture fields yet). Just getting the binary removed and FTBFS will

prevent the architecture from building again.

 


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