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 :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have day jobs." -- Matt Mackall
