Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

Hi,

Am 19.06.23 um 23:19 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 09:31:05AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>> ...
>> I won't be of much help here unfortunately, except
>> maybe testing patches, but then again there's porterboxes
>> ...
> You are the only one who could realistically debug many of these.
>
> E.g. on armel it says:
>    Fatal exception: Signal 6
>    Stack:
>    /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/instdir/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c2e4)[0xb6ec32e4]
>    /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/instdir/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c534)[0xb6ec3534]
>    /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc.so.6(__default_rt_sa_restorer+0x0)[0xb6ad58f0]
>    /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc.so.6(+0x7f47c)[0xb6b1e47c]
>    /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x14)[0xb6ad4360]
>    Aborted (core dumped)
>
> Fixing something like this would involve generating a backtrace,
> and then you are likely the only person in Debian who could tell
> what is actually going on there.

Not really.

> There are likely also build or debug tricks you know that a porter would
> not know.

True, I can help with those if needed.

(As I already pointed out for zelenka, though it's basically setting 
some variables in rules)

> Debugging something like this is only feasible with reasonable effort if
> a porter who knows the port with its caveats debugs it together with a
> package maintainer who knows the internals of the package.

I didn't say I was not helping, I said I am of no help if it comes to 
actually fix it if it involves architecture knowledge.

[...]

> For such a complex package I would expect 32bit breakage in every
> release if upstream no longer tests on 32bit.
Indeed, though at least for 32bit *build* issues they keep fixing them 
if I report them.
> The pragmatic option would be to run only a smoketest for build success
> on architectures not tested by upstream.

And have Format->Character in Impress crash with Bus error like on 
mipsel? That doesn't sound too good for basic quality.

There is a "smoketest" but it does just basic start. open, close stuff. 
Not even basic usage.


Regards,


Rene