Re: [PATCH] Re-enable riscv64-debian-cross-container (debian riscv64 is finally usable again!)

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:54:15PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 02.05.2024 23:41, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On 5/2/24 13:08, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > This thing works now with sid/unstable, this is what this patch is about.
> > 
> > It worked when first introduced, then failed, then worked...
> > Sid is too unstable for our usage as a gating test.
> 
> unstable can be unstable at times.  Generally it works, and can fail
> during short periods.
> 
> riscv64 didn't work since it got promoted to release arch last year, due
> to non-working multiarch because many riscv64 packages in debian had
> different version numbers compared to other architectures (due to rebuilds
> of binaries).  Later on whole sid was broken by a large time64 transition
> and a lot of breakages in this area.  This is now being completed and
> is migrated to testing, which is finally available for riscv64 too as
> a release arch.
> 
> I wouldn't switch to testing just yet, because at this point, unstable
> will usually be more stable, or, rather, it will be broken for much
> shorter periods of time than testing, due to migration delays.
> 
> It will take some more time for debian testing to become more or less
> stable in this context.  But lack of riscv testing already cost me a
> *stable* release which failed to *build* (8.2.3 fails to build on
> riscv64).  So I think it is more important to run this job on sid
> than not to run it at all.

JOB_OPTIONAL requires a job to be manually started, but is
non-gating.

We need something intermediate, that always starts the job,
but still keeps it non-gating. You'll see if the pipeline
job for riscv is green or yellow (failure), and can then
check if its a real failure of a Debian failure.


With regards,
Daniel
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