Friday, 21 October 2022

Re: +1 maintenance report

Hi Sergio,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 06:47:09PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> * cryfs
> - FTBFS on ppc64el due to RLIMIT_MEMLOCK being too low.
> - After spending some time playing with setrlimit et al, it's clear to
> me that the problem cannot be easily fixed in the source code. I
> believe we will need to increase RLIMIT_MEMLOCK in the ppc64el
> builders.
> - Debian isn't affected by this problem.
> - There's also an s390x dep8 failure, which is also affecting Debian.
> I opened an upstream issue.
> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryfs/+bug/1993578

Is there any reason not to instead change the package to skip these tests
when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is too low (which seems detectable)?

Thanks,
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