Here's a short summary of current state for this issue. In the final weeks of the noble release, an archive-wide rebuild identified a build failure in the pmdk package, due to issue(s) in the testsuite. This revealed itself as an architecture-specific problem that we suspect originated earlier in the release when a new libc was added (we didn't confirm this, but it's still our best guess). At least one instruction needed by valgrind was missing on ppc64el; see the upstream discussion at https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/issues/6079 for more details. Debian also sees similar failures in their CI.
One option would have been to change the package to not build on ppc64el. We opted to instead just bypass the testsuite, because a) we don't yet know if the issue flagged by the testsuite is going to surface as actual problems for pmdk users on this architecture in which case that could be overkill, and b) dropping the architecture might have required similar adjustments to other packages. This successfully allowed the package to migrate for the release. However this leaves some questions to follow up on: Is pmdk/ppc64el adequately functional on Ubuntu 24.04? Should keep or drop the architecture for pmdk on Ubuntu 24.10 and going forward, given upstream's support limitations uncertainties? If a fix becomes available, should we backport it to 24.04 and/or re-enable the testsuite there? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2061913 Title: PMDK FTBFS on ppc64el obj_basic_integration/TEST5 crashed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pmdk/+bug/2061913/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
