On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 7:47 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju...@gmail.com> wrote: > I registered lapwing as a 32b Debian 7 so I thought it would be expected to > keep it as-is rather than upgrading to all newer major Debian versions, > especially since there were newer debian animal registered (no 32b though > AFAICS).
Animals do get upgraded: see the "w. e. f." ("with effect from") line in https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_members.pl which comes from people running something like ./update_personality.pl --os-version "11" so that it shows up on the website. > I'm not opposed to upgrading it but I think there's still value in > having somewhat old packages versions being tested, especially since there > isn't much 32b coverage of those. I would be happy to register a newer 32b > version, or even sid, if needed but the -m32 part on the CI makes me think > there isn't much value doing that now. Totally up to you as an animal zoo keeper but in my humble opinion the interesting range of Debian releases currently is 11-13, or maybe 10 if you really want to test the LTS/old-stable release (and CI is testing 11). > I think this is the first time that a problem raised by -Werror on that old > animal is actually a false positive, while there were many times it reported > useful stuff. Now this has been up for years before we got better CI tooling, > especially with -m32 support, so there might not be any value to have it > anymore. As I mentioned at [1] I don't mind removing it or just work on > upgrading any dependency (or removing known buggy compiler flags) to keep it > without being annoying. In any case I'm usually quite fast at reacting to any > problem/complaint on that animal, so you don't have to worry about the > buildfarm being red too long if it came to that. Yeah, it's given us lots of useful data, thanks. Personally I would upgrade it so it keeps telling us useful things but I feel like I've said enough about that so I'll shut up now :-) Re: being red too long... yeah that reminds me, I really need to fix seawasp ASAP...