Re: staging evaluation in progress

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:53:04PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>> >
>> >> Hi Marius,
>> >>
>> >> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> I just started a 'staging' evaluation:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/staging
>> >>>
>> >>> Fairly minor changes this round, highlights include Wayland 1.15 and
>> >>> GStreamer 1.14.  We narrowly missed Mesa 17.3.9 which was scheduled for
>> >>> today but delayed, hopefully 17.3.8 doesn't introduce any new bugs.
>> >>>
>> >>> Results should start ticking in tomorrow.
>> >>
>> >> The main issue I see so far is that 'gst-plugins-base' seems to
>> >> consistently fail the "elements/opus" test on i686-linux.  It failed
>> >> twice in a row, anyway:
>> >>
>> >>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2635798
>> >
>> > I can reproduce this failure locally, and could not find related bug
>> > reports or git commits upstream.  For now I downgraded to 1.12.5 so we
>> > can proceed, and will report the i686 and armhf issues upstream.
>> 
>> Instead of downgrading gstreamer, I think it would be better to simply
>> disable that test on i686 for now.  Most likely, it is due to tests that
>> are intolerant of the double rounding that occurs on i686 without SSE2,
>> where the old x87 FP instructions are used instead.  The double rounding
>> happens because x87 operations are performed on 80-bit double-extended
>> precision floating-point numbers, which must then be rounded a second
>> time when they are converted to 64-bit doubles as used in C.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>>       Mark
>> 
>
> somewhat random tests fail on aarch64 also, different ones from the
> other architectures. I'd suggest we wait it out until 1.14.1 and watch
> upstream for bug fixes.

Do we know if there are any security fixes in 1.14.0 that are not in
1.12.5?  Is the 1.12.x branch still receiving security updates?

       Mark