Re: glibc 2.28 autopkgtest failures

2018-09-03 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 13:26, Michael Hudson-Doyle < michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote: > tl;dr we should force things through :) > > There are at the time of writing two autopkgtest failures preventing glibc > from migrating: r-cran-rgenoud and python-cffi > > The r-cran-genoud failure is mystif

Re: glibc 2.28 autopkgtest failures

2018-09-03 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 13:26, Michael Hudson-Doyle < michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote: > The bug is that when you lie to cffi about the return type of a variable, > in particular when you say a function returning a float does not return a > float, the x87 stack is not wiped to the extent requir

glibc 2.28 autopkgtest failures

2018-09-03 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
tl;dr we should force things through :) There are at the time of writing two autopkgtest failures preventing glibc from migrating: r-cran-rgenoud and python-cffi The r-cran-genoud failure is mystifying in that I have no idea how the glibc version is affecting the package (it doesn't call many lib