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)
...
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
