‘staging’ and GNOME updates

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> I don't think we should release 1.0 until at least
>>> <https://bugs.gnu.org/34454> and <https://bugs.gnu.org/34528> are
>>> fixed.  Trying a new distribution only to find your favourite programs
>>> are crashing would be a _terrible_ first impression.
>>
>> Do we have any leads on this IceCat issue?  I use IceCat daily and never
>> have any problems of this sort, FWIW.
>
> I’ve seen something like this before, but *only* on i686 machines.  I
> never managed to figure out why.

It looks like Mark fixed this in
bc91562939ee002e84c95d13c907482b6d1e9339.  \o/

> One of the GNOME update branches (for 2.28?) has already been merged
> into staging.  There are rumours of crashes, though, so this will
> require testing by more people.

OK, so I guess we should first focus on getting ‘staging’ tested and
merged.

x86_64 substitutes on ci.guix.info cover 60% of the packages right now.
The main issue is that libdrm has one test failure (see
<https://ci.guix.info/log/n3hrfx0yvz6g3xm0zkixahn227lispim-libdrm-2.4.97>):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
starting phase `check'
[0/1] Running all tests.
 1/16 kms-symbol-check                        OK       0.12 s 
 2/16 gen4-3d.batch                           OK       0.04 s 
 3/16 gen45-3d.batch                          OK       0.04 s 
 4/16 gen5-3d.batch                           OK       0.04 s 
 5/16 gen6-3d.batch                           OK       0.04 s 
 6/16 gen7-3d.batch                           OK       0.04 s 
 7/16 gen7-2d-copy.batch                      OK       0.02 s 
 8/16 intel-symbol-check                      OK       0.67 s 
 9/16 nouveau-symbol-check                    OK       0.32 s 
10/16 radeon-symbol-check                     OK       0.37 s 
11/16 amdgpu-symbol-check                     OK       0.52 s 
12/16 threaded                                SKIP     0.01 s 
13/16 random                                  TIMEOUT 240.01 s 
14/16 hash                                    OK       0.02 s 
15/16 drmsl                                   OK       1.23 s 
16/16 drmdevice                               SKIP     0.01 s 

Ok:                   13
Expected Fail:         0
Fail:                  1
Unexpected Pass:       0
Skipped:               2
Timeout:               1


The output from the failed tests:

13/16 random                                  TIMEOUT 240.01 s 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> The other GNOME upgrade that I worked on months ago still awaits a
> rebase onto staging.  I’ll try to get it into good shape to have the
> build farm build it out, so that more people can test it and provide
> fixes where needed.

Perhaps we can first merge ‘staging’ in its current form, then make this
branch the new ‘staging’ and aim for a merge as is (with only fixes
committed there.)  How does that sound?

Ludo’.