Bug#1103113: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386

From	Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1103113: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386
Date	2025-04-17 09:40 +0200
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Le jeu. 17 avr. 2025 à 09:15, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> a écrit :

> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> Hi Lucas,
>
> [Release Team member hat on]
>
> I always appreciate your QA work on rebuilding Debian, but I'm wondering
> what the value is of filing out-of-memory FTBFS bugs on a 32 bit
> architecture for source packages that only builds arch:all binaries.
> arch:all binaries in Debian are build on 64 bits architectures with more
> memory space than the 32 bits architectures, so I don't think it's worth
> the stress of the maintainers (of arch:all binaries only sources) to
> look into out-of-memory FTBFS RC problems on low address space systems
> (in this case it looks like assumptions in a test, but still). Related,
> arch:all only source packages have no way to avoid you trying to build
> on i386. Can you please share your opinion?
>
I haven't demoted the severity of the (currently one) bug I spotted just
> yet, to enable you to respond, but as you can see from my response, I'm
> inclined to do that.
>

About the bug itself: I'm inclined to fix it - the test suite is already
trimmed down
(because it would be too much resources to run it fully), so I can make sure
to not run tests requiring 2gb+ of memory on 32-bits archs.

Jérémy

Thread

Bug#1103113: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2025-04-17 09:20 +0200
  Processed: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386 "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-04-17 09:20 +0200
  Bug#1103113: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386 Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> - 2025-04-17 09:40 +0200
  Bug#1103113: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> - 2025-04-17 10:10 +0200
    Bug#1103113: on filing FTBFS due to out-of-memory on i386 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2025-04-17 10:50 +0200

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