Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hi Debian release team, > > > > according to [1] postgresql-7.4 has recently been blocked to go into > > testing. However, the current testing version is months old and has > > open security holes, so it is crucial that Etch is not released with > > 7.4.9. > > > > The reason for not going into testing for so long is trouble on mips > > and mipsel. Please see [2] for details. This continues to be unsolved, > > but I worked around the problem for now by having mips and mipsel > > binaries for postgresql-7.4 removed from testing and unstable. Now > > only [3] needs to be done (removing mipsen binaries for > > postgresql-plruby and plr, and probably postgresql-pljava) until > > postgresql-7.4 can finally enter testing. > > > > Please unblock the testing migration. Thank you for your > > consideration! > > > > Please do not hesitate to ask me any further questions (you can also > > IRC-ping me, I'm pitti in #d-d). > > FWIW, I tried a build with today's unstable on mips, after enabling > the server packages again. There was one failure in the testsuite: > > > ... > test geometry ... ok > test horology ... failed (ignored) > test insert ... ok > test create_function_1 ... ok > ... > polymorphism ... ok > test stats ... ok > ============== shutting down postmaster ============== > > ================================================== > 92 of 93 tests passed, 1 failed test(s) ignored. > ================================================== > > > The resulting sever packages installed fine, no obvious failure > (but OTOH I don't know what a serious test would be).
In addition, I built with gcc-4.1. Since some (mostly FFI related) ABI bugs were fixed between 3.3 and 4.0, this can explain the difference. I recommend to try a build without any mips/mipsel specific workarounds (the horology failure appears to be normal, it happens also on other architectures). Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
