Mark H Weaver writes: > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:53:04PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Marius Bakke writes: >>> >>> > Mark H Weaver writes: >>> > >>> >> Hi Marius, >>> >> >>> >> Marius Bakke 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? As far as I could tell, the 1.12.5 release was mostly security fixes backported from 1.14. See the log in .