Re: 5.0.5-dev-3

[Axel Beckert <abe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 06:39:09PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Uploaded 5.0.5-dev-3 to http://www.zsh.org/pub/development/ .  The tag
> is "zsh-5.0.5-dev-3".

Built fine locally and on our Jenkins. Uploaded it to Debian
Experimental yesterday.

> I think the only remaining open matter (excluding longer term issues
> that aren't going to be dealt with immediately) is test failures in
> some automated tests.

We again got a few build-failures on the build daemons, but this time
on different architectures than with 5.0.5-dev-2, namely amd64 (Linux)
and s390x while kfreebsd-amd64 worked fine this time:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=zsh&suite=experimental

On amd64 (aka x86_64) the testsuite was hanging and killed after 150
minutes:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=zsh&arch=amd64&ver=5.0.5-dev-3-1&stamp=1409099297

On s390x, gcc was killed after 150 minutes of inactivity:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=zsh&arch=s390x&ver=5.0.5-dev-3-1&stamp=1409118602

At the moment the latter looks more like a platform issue to me as the
same happened with a rebuild of 5.0.5 due to glibc bugfixes while it
didn't fail two months ago with a previous glibc version. I'll talk to
the s390 porters about this.

> Unless something definitive turns up I'm not going to regard this as
> blocking the release.

Since they don't seem to show up under some (yet unclear) conditions
and even then not permanently (more intermittent), I don't consider
them release-critical despite I need to find a way to avoid them in
Debian deterministically before I upload it to "unstable" instead of
"experimental".

		Kind regards, Axel
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