Package: swi-prolog Version: 7.2.3+dfsg-5.1 Severity: serious Justification: FTBFS
Hi, something broke swi-prolog in Debian (see #852892), but it revealed another problem. Java tests fail on mips with segmentation fault. Unfortunately, 7.2 branch of swi-prolog is almost at its end of life stage and it is not supported by upstream in an appropriate manner. Currently, upstream works heavily on releasing 7.4 branch (7.4-rc1 was released two weeks ago), which as upstream puts it will be supported by security fixes for a long time and in an appropriate manner. I've tried to play with build flags, but (unfortunately!) my attempts to fix the bug were unsuccessful. So, there are simply two options: 1. Do not build swi-prolog-java on mips (as it already done on armel and armhf), and let swi-prolog enter stretch. 2. Do not let 7.2.3 version of swi-prolog enter stretch. As for me I vote for the second option, because I don't think that it is a good idea to let dead (= without upstream support and without enough competent contributors in Debian, who is interested to keep it alive) branch of some piece of software enter stable release and stay there for 2 or more years. It simply will _not_ have any good support, which I'd consider as a bad thing. My suggestion, as partly stated above, is to have that RC bug open to not let swi-prolog enter stretch. But after stretch release 7.4 (moreover 7.4 should have OpenSSL 1.1 support, which is absent in 7.2) branch of swi-prolog will be ready and I'll upload it to backports. But if there are anyone who _really_ need swi-prolog in stretch, I'm open to your suggestions and can manage with the first option. (In this case, please, do not expect good level of support of swi-prolog in stretch.) Cheers, Lev Lamberov -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages swi-prolog depends on: ii swi-prolog-nox 7.2.3+dfsg-5.1 ii swi-prolog-x 7.2.3+dfsg-5.1 swi-prolog recommends no packages. Versions of packages swi-prolog suggests: pn prolog-el <none> -- no debconf information
