Merge ~bryce/britney:plusone-hints into ~ubuntu-release/britney/+git/hints-ubuntu:devel

[Bryce Harrington]

Recent update to Delve added a new feature that depends on kernel functionality that either isn't available or isn't working on impish's arm64 linux kernel.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/delve/+bug/1938474

    notes:
      - Delve is failing on a test introduced with a new feature in
        version 1.6.1, but only on arm. Dan Bungert traced backwards
        thru the failing case (using delve) quite a bit and eventually
        found that it was attempting to dump the mappings listed in
        smaps, and on which mapping it was failing. Delve does some
        filtering to reduce which mappings get dumped - smaps does have
        a "dd" flag that is intended to say "do not include area into
        core dump", but vvar in this case does not have the flag, and it
        is working OK on older kernels. Opened launchpad and upstream
        issue with this information. Upstream is considering also
        filtering on the "pf" flag, which is present in the vvar mapping
        info on the failing kernels.

Feedback from upstream is that this appears to them to be a kernel bug, rather than a bug in this package.
Given that, I think we should force-reset-test for this arch.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Since delve is only blocking itself, I think we should take a wait and see approach.

Unmerged commits

de71350... by Bryce Harrington on 2021-08-02

force-reset-test delve/1.6.1-1/arm64

diff --git a/ubuntu-release b/ubuntu-release
index 684e6c4..3b2af62 100644
--- a/ubuntu-release
+++ b/ubuntu-release
@@ -11740,3 +11740,8 @@ force-reset-test ruby-excon/0.79.0-2/s390x
 # this is a badtest only as we should have this fixed one way or another in the
 # package; we need results for systemd on all arches
 force-badtest systemd/248.3-1ubuntu1/armhf
+
+# This version introduced a new feature and test that depends on a
+# (recent?) kernel function missing on arm64.
+# (LP: #1938474)
+force-reset-test delve/1.6.1-1/arm64