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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 50239@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#50239] [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Fix signal processing.
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:39:54 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3088529.eW9a4NE73H@popigai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7f74cb51997e491e98564df10c1b4c9144ef9de.camel@telenet.be>

Hello Maxime,

Thank you for your review!

Em segunda-feira, 30 de agosto de 2021, às 08:43:42 -03, Maxime Devos 
escreveu:
> Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via schreef op za 28-08-2021 om 
13:43 [-0300]:
> > [...]
> > diffutils has a race condition in its signal processing code which is
> > easy to trigger on powerpc64le-linux. More often than not, it causes
> > the ‘colors’ test to fail and therefore the build of the package fails
> > as well. [...]
> 
> Adding this patch makes sense to me too, though I don't have a
> powerpc64le-linux to test this on.

Nice, thanks!

> > Add the patch proposed in Debian bug 922552 which fixes the problem.
> 
> Do you think upstream will have its own working patch soonish?

I think so. Paul Eggert was very quick in his response and is already 
working on a fix.

> (See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36488#41>, for people
> who aren't Thiago Jung Bauermann.)

Yeah, the discussion moved unexpectedly to a different bug report. Thanks 
for tracking it down and posting the new link.

> If so, it might make sense to wait a little for an ‘official’ patch.

Yes, I agree.

-- 
Thanks,
Thiago






  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-30 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-28 16:43 [bug#50239] [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Fix signal processing Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via
2021-08-30 11:43 ` Maxime Devos
2021-08-30 13:39   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via [this message]
2021-09-06 11:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-06 13:58   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via
2021-09-09 14:41   ` [bug#50239] [PATCH core-updates-frozen v2] " Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via
2021-11-12  6:00     ` bug#50239: [PATCH core-updates-frozen] " Maxim Cournoyer

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