Hi,

I might have a workaround, if ceph-dencoder is the only piece that fails.

Unfortunately I doubt it is, but I'll give it a try in experimental soon.

Bernd

Am 16. Jänner 2020 00:55:11 MEZ schrieb peter green <plugw...@p10link.net>:
>On 14/01/2020 10:24, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 normal
>> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>>
>> 12.01.2020 18:37, peter green wrote:
>>> Package: qemu-block-extra
>>> Version: 1:4.2-1
>>> Severity: serious
>>>
>>> The binary packages built from the ceph source package were recently
>removed from mipsel, because the new version of ceph runs out of
>address space
>>> during the build. Your package build-depends on libradios-dev and
>librbd-dev and depends on librados2 and librbd1 which are built from
>the ceph source
>>> package. So qemu-block-extra is now uninstallable and the qemu
>source package is unbuildable on mipsel.
>> Hm. For the start, I see that new ceph packages are being built on
>mips/mips64
>> right now as I write this. So things aren't that simple, at least.
>
>Ceph 14.2.4 was uploaded to unstable in late december, but failed to
>build on many architectures. The maintainer found workarounds for most
>of them, but could not find any soloution to the address space
>exhaustion issue on mipsel (when a build says "out of memory" it nearly
>always really means out of address space).
>
>With version 14.2.4-8 the maintainer decided it was time to give up on
>mipsel, he removed mipsel from the architecture lists and filed a
>removal request with the ftp masters.
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947887
>
>It seems that with version 1.4.2.5-1 mipsel was quietly re-added to the
>achitecture list, I do not know if this was a mistake or if the
>maintainer was deliberately testing if the problem had gone away.
>Either way ceph has continued to fail to build on mipsel.
>
>> Next, even if we're now uninstallable on some architecture, it is
>definitely not
>> our fault,
>
>It's not about "fault".
>
>> so I don't see why this bugreport is of serious severity.
>rc policy "Packages must be buildable within the same release."
>
>I'm not going to play severity ping-pong with you, but I am ccing the
>ceph maintainers and the release team in-case they want to give a
>position on this.
>>   Also, it has
>> nothing to do with this particular version of qemu, either.
>True enough, afaict normal practice is to file bugs against the current
>version in testing/unstable unless there is reason not to.
>>    And more, it has
>> nothing to do with qemu-block-extra package, too, even if that's the
>only pkg
>> which actually uses the library in question, -- we _build_-depend on
>librados-dev
>> too, so it is qemu source which FTBFS on mips.
>If you would preffer to reassign to the source package that is fine by
>me, doesn't make much practical difference.
>>
>> So far I don't quite understand what's going on with ceph on mips,
>hence adding
>> a "moreinfo" tag. We shouldn't drop optional features on different
>architectures
>> easily,
>
>If I thought this was just some transient issue I wouldn't have
>bothered filing this bug, but I doubt it is.
>
>>   or else it would quickly become a mess, not understanding which
>features
>> of which packages are enabled on which architecture (I speak here
>about general
>> debian, not about this particular (pair of) package).
>At some point I think Debian needs to have a hard think about how
>32-bit architectures are supported, possiblly introducing official
>support for cross-building heavier packages, but so-far there doesn't
>seem to have been a strong will to do so.

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