On 2024-02-26 20:46:43 [+0100], Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > Ignoring stderr could be a workaround, but I'd need to do something as
> > > well for the libdpkg code and the perl code calling xz, which will get
> > > very annoying.
> > > 
> > > This is also going to get in the way of migrating both xz and dpkg
> > > (which seems like would need to be uploaded today for the time64
> > > transition).
> > > 
> > > Or perhaps that warning could be disabled for now in Debian until things
> > > are sorted out with upstream?
> > 
> > Falling back to -T1 in order to keep the previous is not an option?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Do you mean dpkg would
> fallback to pass -T1 (maybe you mean -T+1, otherwise we might get
> unreproducible output due to switching to single-threaded)? And
> fallback on what condition?

Yes. I *think* that error came from the decompress part but I'm not sure.

> Ah, I think you mean to pass -T+1 to the xz invocations for the test
> suite, right, that could workaround the issue there indeed. Thanks, I
> think I'll do that for now.

Thank you.

> > Let me try to sell this "we move this warning to verbose" to upstream in
> > the meantime…
> 
> That would actually be great!
> 
> > > (Had not seen this test suite failure yet, as I've got xz on hold due
> > > to the breaks on pristine-tar, but would probably stumble over it
> > > during the release process anyway I guess, so thanks for the heads up!)
> > 
> > This poped up on xz debci only armel and armhf.
> 
> Perhaps I'll not see it in my local tree then, but I think the dpkg
> failure will at least block xz migration, but thinking about it now,
> probably not dpkg's migration. So this might not be blocking for dpkg.
> (Sorry if this sounded alarming, but didn't want to add new roadblocks
> to the time64 transition from the dpkg side! :D)

Understood ;)

> Thanks,
> Guillem

Sebastian

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