On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:24:57 +0200, Edmund Lodewijks wrote:
On 2026/09/14 06:39, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:libipc-shareable-perl 1.13-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2026-10-06 It is affected by these RC bugs: 1142815: libipc-shareable-perl: t/65-seg_size.t uses insane amount of memory on loong64 https://bugs.debian.org/1142815This package has patches and a Salsa MR, see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1142815#68 and https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libipc-shareable-perl/-/merge_requests/1 What is lacking for this to be moved ahead? A review?
Someone who applies patches / merges the MR, which means someone with the time, energy, and confidence to understand the issue(s) :)
And since the issues and patches are spread across 2 bug reports, 2 upstream issues, 1 MR on salsa, and now this thread on the maintainer mailing list (usually we use [email protected] for discussions, and [email protected] only for package names and BTS traffic and other automated mails, and the BTS for discussions about bugs, so CC'd now), people might lack the overview, so let's try:
For those not having followed along at home, we have: * https://bugs.debian.org/1142815 (47-seg_size.t) Forwarded to https://github.com/stevieb9/ipc-shareable/issues/65This bug should actually have been closed, as I disabled the test in the last upload, but I wanted to wait for the package to build which didn't happen on all architectures, and that's:
* https://bugs.debian.org/1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64) Forwarded to https://github.com/stevieb9/ipc-shareable/issues/66And then we have (thanks for preparing them, Edmund!) different patchsets in different places:
* Two for #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64) in https://bugs.debian.org/1146517 - not sure if they are still valid? * The same (?) 2 patches fixing #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64) in https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libipc-shareable-perl/-/merge_requests/1but this commit also contains a third patch for fixing #1142815 (47-seg_size.t).
* And at https://github.com/stevieb9/ipc-shareable/issues/66 we have 2.5 patchsets, the same (?) two for fixing #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64) as in the MR and the bug report, plus the third one fixing #1142815 (47-seg_size.t). And then a different pair of patches for #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64), using IPC::SharedMem instead of special casing ppc64el and ppc64.And all these patches/MRs contain a lot of text :) and TTBOMK (partially) AI-assisted code.
My personal thoughts so far are (and others might disagree): - I'd also like to see the two bugs fixed, rather sooner than later :) - So it's good to have patches! (Thanks again.) - There have been no upstream reactions so far; I'd like to keep whatever we apply now in Debian as minimal as possible. - This means I'd rather leave 47-seg_size.t as it is now, and leave this fix to upstream. Even if the patch is correct, it needs time to review, increases the diff and our maintenance burden, and this test has annoyed as often enough already. (And close #1142815 manually once a package builds everywhere and runs its autopackagetests.) - As for #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64) I'd rather take the more minimal versions of the 2 patches, aka the ones in MR!1 on salsa aka the "alternative_*" ones in the upstream issue. Reasoning again: less divergence from upstream, it's their decision to adopt the change to using IPC::SharedMem (although I like the idea; and I also think they have a bug but I'll have to try later …)So my preliminary proposal is to work from MR!1 on salsa, trim it down to just the necessary changes for #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64), i.e. drop the third patch for #1142815 (47-seg_size.t) and revert the surrounding changes in debian/, _and_ then have someone with a better understanding then me about architectures in Perl review those changes.
And now I'm sorry that I've written a wall of text :) But maybe this helps us to make progress here.
Happy to hear thoughts and find another pair of eyes! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe`-
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