• avoiding autoremoval for what seems like a spurious build error

    From Stephen Sinclair@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 29 17:30:02 2021
    Hi Mentors,

    My package siconos currently has a bug filed [1] and has been marked
    for autoremoval from testing.

    The problem is that I cannot reproduce it. The failure is on a test
    that depends on another package, so I am wondering if there was just a
    glitch here? I have replied to the bug report with working build
    logs, but there has been no further activity, so I am not sure what
    further action I can take to avoid that the package gets removed.

    Thanks for any help.
    Steve

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986515

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  • From Robin Gustafsson@21:1/5 to radarsat1@gmail.com on Thu Apr 29 22:50:02 2021
    Hi Stephen,

    On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:26 PM Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Mentors,

    My package siconos currently has a bug filed [1] and has been marked
    for autoremoval from testing.

    The problem is that I cannot reproduce it.

    Did you build the package in a clean environment? Against only
    dependencies in testing?

    Otherwise, I'd recommend sbuild.

    I tried building it myself to confirm, but it failed due to lack of
    disk space, so I can't currently.

    The failure is on a test
    that depends on another package, so I am wondering if there was just a
    glitch here? I have replied to the bug report with working build
    logs, but there has been no further activity, so I am not sure what
    further action I can take to avoid that the package gets removed.

    Thanks for any help.
    Steve

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986515

    Regards,
    Robin

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  • From Eriberto Mota@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 29 23:50:02 2021
    I used a trivial jail with chroot. I can't reproduce the issue.

    Regards,

    Eriberto


    Em qui., 29 de abr. de 2021 às 18:30, Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> escreveu:

    On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 05:25:28PM +0200, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
    Hi Mentors,

    My package siconos currently has a bug filed [1] and has been marked
    for autoremoval from testing.

    The problem is that I cannot reproduce it. The failure is on a test
    that depends on another package, so I am wondering if there was just a glitch here? I have replied to the bug report with working build
    logs, but there has been no further activity, so I am not sure what
    further action I can take to avoid that the package gets removed.

    Thanks for any help.
    Steve

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986515

    I could also not reproduce it in a pbuilder chroot. Might indeed be a glitch or some other dependency causing this…
    I'd either downgrade it to non RC and tag it unreproducible or close it with the request to reopen if it pops up again.

    --
    tobi


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  • From Tobias Frost@21:1/5 to Stephen Sinclair on Thu Apr 29 23:40:01 2021
    On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 05:25:28PM +0200, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
    Hi Mentors,

    My package siconos currently has a bug filed [1] and has been marked
    for autoremoval from testing.

    The problem is that I cannot reproduce it. The failure is on a test
    that depends on another package, so I am wondering if there was just a
    glitch here? I have replied to the bug report with working build
    logs, but there has been no further activity, so I am not sure what
    further action I can take to avoid that the package gets removed.

    Thanks for any help.
    Steve

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986515

    I could also not reproduce it in a pbuilder chroot. Might indeed be a glitch
    or some other dependency causing this…
    I'd either downgrade it to non RC and tag it unreproducible or close it with the request to reopen if it pops up again.

    --
    tobi

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  • From Stephen Sinclair@21:1/5 to eriberto@debian.org on Tue May 4 19:50:02 2021
    Thanks for the responses and attempts to build!
    Yes, it takes quite a bit of memory unfortunately, due to some very
    large auto-generated swig wrappers combined with some complicated
    boost usage.

    In any case, I was not so much asking for help building/reproducing,
    as I was asking what I can do other than to reply to the bug, which
    seems not to be eliciting a response, to either avoid or delay the
    auto-removal process. Is auto-removal policy documented somewhere? Unfortunately all my searches turn up "apt-get autoremove" help
    instead.

    I am really worried the package will get removed from the upcoming
    Debian release because of this.

    regards,
    Steve

    On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:47 PM Eriberto Mota <eriberto@debian.org> wrote:

    I used a trivial jail with chroot. I can't reproduce the issue.

    Regards,

    Eriberto


    Em qui., 29 de abr. de 2021 às 18:30, Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> escreveu:

    On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 05:25:28PM +0200, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
    Hi Mentors,

    My package siconos currently has a bug filed [1] and has been marked
    for autoremoval from testing.

    The problem is that I cannot reproduce it. The failure is on a test
    that depends on another package, so I am wondering if there was just a glitch here? I have replied to the bug report with working build
    logs, but there has been no further activity, so I am not sure what further action I can take to avoid that the package gets removed.

    Thanks for any help.
    Steve

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986515

    I could also not reproduce it in a pbuilder chroot. Might indeed be a glitch
    or some other dependency causing this…
    I'd either downgrade it to non RC and tag it unreproducible or close it with
    the request to reopen if it pops up again.

    --
    tobi



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  • From Robin Gustafsson@21:1/5 to radarsat1@gmail.com on Tue May 4 20:20:01 2021
    On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 7:48 PM Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com> wrote:

    In any case, I was not so much asking for help building/reproducing,
    as I was asking what I can do other than to reply to the bug, which
    seems not to be eliciting a response, to either avoid or delay the auto-removal process. Is auto-removal policy documented somewhere?

    For that you'd follow Tobias' suggestion:
    I'd either downgrade it to non RC and tag it unreproducible or close it with the request to reopen if it pops up again.

    Practically, that means you'd either downgrade the bug's severity [1]
    to "important" or below to make it non-RC [2], or close it [3].

    The connection between RC bugs and auto-removal is documented here [4].

    [1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#severity
    [2] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
    [3] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing
    [4] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#removals-from-testing

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