Re: [PATCH] Re-enable riscv64-debian-cross-container (debian riscv64 is finally usable again!)

[Michael Tokarev]

02.05.2024 23:41, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 5/2/24 13:08, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > This thing works now with sid/unstable, this is what this patch is about.
>
> It worked when first introduced, then failed, then worked...
> Sid is too unstable for our usage as a gating test.

unstable can be unstable at times.  Generally it works, and can fail
during short periods.

riscv64 didn't work since it got promoted to release arch last year, due
to non-working multiarch because many riscv64 packages in debian had
different version numbers compared to other architectures (due to rebuilds
of binaries).  Later on whole sid was broken by a large time64 transition
and a lot of breakages in this area.  This is now being completed and
is migrated to testing, which is finally available for riscv64 too as
a release arch.

I wouldn't switch to testing just yet, because at this point, unstable
will usually be more stable, or, rather, it will be broken for much
shorter periods of time than testing, due to migration delays.

It will take some more time for debian testing to become more or less
stable in this context.  But lack of riscv testing already cost me a
*stable* release which failed to *build* (8.2.3 fails to build on
riscv64).  So I think it is more important to run this job on sid
than not to run it at all.

Thanks,

/mjt
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