Hi Andreas!
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 01:06:31PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
>
>As you might have noticed I've taken the liberty to NMU strace into
>*experimental*.
>
>I've done so based on my past experience that strace can have many
>architecture specific problems, to give me a picture of what the
>situation is for the latest upstream 6.1 release.
>(And since it's experimental we have the posisibily to just RM it and
>act like it never happened.)
That's cool. :-)
>It seems like mips* has test failures (as usual?!).
>I've filed https://github.com/strace/strace/issues/235
>with my limited conclusions about the issues.
>
>Given that strace has not been updated for the entire release cycle and
>that it's currently RC-buggy, I think it would be useful to try to
>update it before the 12 Feb freeze. The time window is however very
>small.
>Additionally ppc64el seems to have a huge build backlog, so if we want
>to make it during the limited time window before the freeze we can't
>wait for the results. (I could possibly build on a ppc64el porterbox
>to see if I can spot any problems there.)
>
>I would like to know what you think about a potential NMU of strace 6.1
>to unstable at this point. Probably with mips* tests set to not fail the
>build (`|| true`). Possibly the same for ppc64el just to make sure it
>doesn't give any surprises once it finally builds (and the upload is old
>enough to migrate to testing).
>
>If I'm going to do the NMU I'll need to proceed very soon so your input
>on this would be very appreciated if you could give it ASAP!
>What do you think?
Please feel free to NMU, I was hoping to get back to strace a while
back but my time has vanished with shim and grub lately :-(
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