[Pkg-octave-devel] Migrating octave-lftat into testing before the freeze

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le vendredi 31 octobre 2014 à 23:41 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-10-31 22:48]:
> 
> > Le mercredi 29 octobre 2014 à 20:26 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> >> Le mercredi 29 octobre 2014 à 19:47 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> >>> Package octave-ltfat is prevented from entering testing because of build
> >>> failures on amrhf and mips.  I filed Bug#765545 against ftp.debian.org
> >>> requesting the removal of the arch binaries, but the ftp-masters did not
> >>> act on it yet.  Is there anything we can do in order to ensure that the
> >>> new version of octave-ltfat will be in testing before the freeze?
> >>
> >> I think your only option is to ping the ftpmasters.
> >
> > I answered too quickly. There are actually two other options.
> >
> > The first one is to request give backs. It seems that it's what you have 
> > done (or someone else) for armhf, since the package is currently 
> > building there again.
> >
> > The other option that I'm pursuing is to build the package on the armhf 
> > and mips porterboxes. I got it built on armhf (and will upload it if the 
> > give back fails there). On mips it's been building for two days, and 
> > apparently it went beyond the point were it failed on the buildd. 
> > Unfortunately the porterbox is going to reboot in about 10h (I guess 
> > because of a security update), so I'm not sure it will work.
> >
> > Stay tuned.
> 
> Great, thanks.

So I have uploaded armhf and mips binaries compiled on the porterboxes.
This should allow octave-ltfat to migrate to testing.

Note that I had to compile the mips package with
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Otherwise it would have taken several days to
compile (the porterbox is slow, but the testsuite is also very long).

Of course something will need to be done in the longer term to remedy
this situation. Possible options are downsizing the testsuite or
restricting the architecture set.

Best,

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