[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#524745: Bug#524745: Bug#524745: Postinst seems to run forever on mipsel

[Luk Claes]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I am revisiting this buildd problem conerning the postinst script of the
> octave3.0.  I see in the buildd status page for mipsel [1], the following:
> 
>     State: Building (16)
> 
>     tbb (26d 00:44, 3/7, mayer) octave-communications (18d 00:24, 10/10, rem)
>     octave-financial (18d 00:24, 11/11, rem) octave-fixed (17d 17:32, 11/11,
>     mayer) octave-nan (14d 21:44, 11/11, mayer) octave-linear-algebra (14d
>     21:44, 11/11, mayer) octave-plot (14d 19:05, 11/11, rem) octave-sockets (11d
>     23:34, 11/11, rem) octave-specfun (11d 23:34, 11/11, rem) zoneminder (10d
>     07:11, 10/10, mayer) dballe (10d 03:16, 4/9, mayer) protobuf (9d 16:24, 8/9,
>     mayer) nikwi (9d 06:14, 5/6, mayer) usplash-theme-debian (9d 01:54, tried 7
>     times, 4/6, mayer) synce-trayicon (1d 15:16, tried 3 times, 10/10)
>     gurlchecker (1d 10:10, tried 3 times, 10/10) 
> 
> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/architecture.php?suite=&a=mipsel
> 
> If I interpret this correctly, there are at least eight octave-* packages
> with the build stalled right now, aren't there?  Either we kill the
> processes or we take oportunity to debug the problem.  I think developers
> have not access to either rem or mayer, right?  Otherwise, if you
> discover anything interesting, please drop me a note.

There is only one of them really stalled on the buildd, the others just 
did not get retried. It being stalled is to debug the problem and it's 
kind of waiting on your input how to debug it AFAIK.

Cheers

Luk