[Pkg-javascript-devel] Please give back libuv1 (1.6.1-3) on sparc

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:31:20PM +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2015 10:45:59 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 09/07/15 10:35, Luca Bruno wrote:
> > > Dear wb-team,
> > > latest libuv1 upload (1.6.1-3) while fixing a legit FTBFS, also saw a
> > > spurious failure in the testsuite on sparc.
> > > Can your please re-try it?
> > > 
> > > gb libuv1_1.6.1-3 . sparc
> > 
> > Done.
> 
> Thanks, but it seems to have failed again :(
> Looking at libuv/libuv1 past logs, I think the testsuite is hitting some kind 
> of arch-specific bug, probably affecting old kernels.
> 
> I can observe that they failed on lebrun/spontini/schroeder/smetana
> (Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp) but they always build on stadler (Linux 
> 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-sparc64-smp).
> 
> Is it possible to have sparc builders updated to newer kernels/OS, or 
> otherwise pinning both libuv/libuv1 only to machines with a recent kernel? 

lebrun/spontini/schroeder aren't able to run a more recent
version of the kernel.

I can exclude it in the config on each machine, but I'd like to
avoid that.  I've given it back, we'll see where it ends up.


Kurt