[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#876743: flatpak: FTBFS on hppa: Creating new namespace failed: Invalid argument

[Helge Deller]

On 25.09.2017 21:20, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 09:40:39 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
>> Source: flatpak
>> Version: 0.9.12-2
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: upstream
>> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
>>
>> The flatpak build for hppa (admittedly not a release architecture) has
>> started failing:
>>
>>    ERROR: tests/test-run.sh - too few tests run (expected 12, got 0)
> 
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> This indicates that, unlike most Debian buildds, your hppa buildd allows
> enough namespace creation that bwrap (bubblewrap) can work at all; but
> then it does not allow enough namespace creation that Flatpak's more
> complicated uses of bwrap also work.
> 
> This probably means the upstream test suite should have a better check for
> whether bwrap works, so that these tests can be skipped on your buildd's
> kernel (they can't pass there, and Flatpak won't work on that kernel).
> 
> Do hppa machines have recent enough kernels available that Flatpak is
> of any practical use, for example able to install and run GNOME Recipes
> from https://flathub.org/apps.html on a test machine? The jessie kernel
> should work. If a recent enough kernel is available, please run it on
> hppa buildds. If not, then IMO it's a positive thing that Flatpak FTBFS
> on hppa, and the old (non-functional) binaries should probably be removed.

We have stability problems with latest debian kernels.
That's why I've compiled a 4.9.50 (stable series) kernel and run it now
on our buildds.
Flatpack did built successfully in the past:
  https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=flatpak&arch=hppa
So, I think in general there are no problems with flatpak on hppa.

I plan to rebuild a new 4.9.50 kernel with all kernel namespace features
enabled soon, and then I can give-back flatpak.
Maybe it will succeed then?

Helge