On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:45:33PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Steve,
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:06:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:35:23AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > And then there is the unrelated #908269 that currently prevents testing > > > migration of pbbam. > > > Steve seems to be addressing this with > > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/409374477/pbbam_0.19.0+dfsg-1ubuntu3_0.19.0+dfsg-1ubuntu4.diff.gz > > Yes, but the net result of this change is that now the autopkgtest fails by > > running out of memory during the package build at test time, which is why I > > haven't submitted a better patch to the BTS. > > I think the ideal here would be to either have a way to generate just the > > single data file we need for the tests, or to capture that file from the > > package build and ship it in a binary package, so that we don't have to do a > > full rebuild during the autopkgtests. > Thanks a lot for the time you have spent into this leaf package. I > think it is absolutely realistic that this package these days and also > for the next couple of years will be practically used only on amd64 > architecture. It might be sensible to draw a line here and simply > declare this package and its rdepends "Architecture: amd64" and move on > with problems that might affect more users and realistic applications > for other architectures. > What do you think? I have no opinion. I recognize that pretty much everyone working in this domain is using x86, but I also know that Debian and Ubuntu run quite well on both arm64 and ppc64el servers (the other two architectures pbbam supports); and Amazon has recently announced ARM64 cloud instances which are a fraction of the price of x86; so if I were the maintainer I would probably leave these enabled. Regardless, the autopkgtest problem is not amd64-specific, because at least for Ubuntu, we do not size our autopkgtest runners any differently on amd64 than on other architectures. Fixing the autopkgtest to not require a full source build for one data file would allow the autopkgtest to run (and likely succeed) on all available archs. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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