Bug#848063: +patch: ri-li FTBFS on single-CPU buildds

Steve Cotton steve at s.cotton.clara.co.uk
Sun Feb 19 20:38:12 UTC 2017


Hi Markus and Santiago,

Sorry, but it's turned out that my patch either doesn't completely
avoid the bug, or doesn't avoid another bug which gives the same error
message.  The build has failed on arm64.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:05:07PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Even if I had not the technical skills to find a fix for this bug, I
> explained clearly how to reproduce it, and I even offered a machine
> for you to reproduce it.

There's a difference between being able to reproduce a bug, and being
able to debug it.  Giving an entire VM setup and saying that that is
enough to reproduce it doesn't start to cut it down to the minimal
test case in which a developer could debug it.

It was only Jonathan Dowland's response to debian-devel, saying that
the main difference in your buildd was the single CPU, that made me
realise there was a simple way to reproduce it in a debugging
environment.  Or not, as the arm64 failure shows.

BR,
Steve



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