Re: staging evaluation in progress

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> 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?

As far as I could tell, the 1.12.5 release was mostly security fixes
backported from 1.14.

See the log in
<https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/log/?h=1.12>.

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