Merge lp:~paelzer/britney/hints-ubuntu-disco-fix-systemd-ppc-hint-that-never-works into lp:~ubuntu-sru/britney/hints-ubuntu-disco

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

[lp:~paelzer/britney/hints-ubuntu-disco-fix-systemd-ppc-hint-that-never-works]

3712. By Christian Ehrhardt  on 2019-09-26

mark systemd broken on armhf

In the discussions in LP: #1845337 we realized that since recent
changes [1] to the infrastructure new directories are exposed [2].
Due to that this test is broken on LXD which currently means on armhf.

A following systemd upload could fix the test by adding the
directories to the list of filtered paths, but for mask the
bug as known bad test.

[1]: https://git.launchpad.net/autopkgtest-cloud/commit/?id=b8c9165686c7598b3f1a68aa4684e7f382ad935c
[2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1845337/comments/10

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Extended the MP by the change needed for [1] until resolved in systemd or reverted in the autopkgtest infrastructure.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1845337

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Ok, so generally I would be -1 on setting this to a generalized hint. Adding a generic hint usually means "this is broken and we do not care about it ever again", which means we basically have 0 testing for the given arch. The need to bump the test every time, even though troublesome, does require someone to take a look and confirm if the same thing is broken as it was before. Sure, this is very annoying, but I wouldn't want us to completely stop caring about testing for a given arch.

That being said, do not treat my words as the definite 'no'. I completely understand how unproductive this currently is, and I myself am putting my own rationale in doubt, having mixed feelings if it actually matters that much. If there are other SRU members that would be +1 on making this generic for disco, I would not object.

So for now I will merge your change, but not commit the actual generalization. I'll try discussing this with other SRU members on our nearest meeting.

review: Approve (not all of the changes)

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thanks!
I'm usually also rather safe and formal and wouldn't have requested that without a reason.
But to me [1][2] really seems like people have "having given up" on it.

Just like you I'm open to a compromise as well, I'm fine if we add this only versioned but I wanted to have exactly that SRU Team discussion that you mentioned.

[1]: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/s/systemd/disco/ppc64el
[2]: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/s/systemd/disco/armhf

=== modified file 'ubuntu-sru'
--- ubuntu-sru	2019-09-19 15:11:55 +0000
+++ ubuntu-sru	2019-09-26 14:51:40 +0000
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@
 # Chrony regressed in release - fixes are on the way (LP: #1836929)
 force-badtest chrony/3.4-1ubuntu1
 
-# Regressed in release
-force-badtest systemd/240-6ubuntu5.3/ppc64el
-force-badtest systemd/240-6ubuntu5.4/ppc64el
+# Regressed in release and does not come back
+force-badtest systemd/all/ppc64el
+# Regressed due to LXD nesting exposing unexpected directories (LP: #1845337)
+# Triggering now due to:
+# https://git.launchpad.net/autopkgtest-cloud/commit/?id=b8c9165686c7598b3f1a68aa4684e7f382ad935c
+force-badtest systemd/240-6ubuntu5.7/armhf
 
 # blacklisted because the autopkgtest installs not freely usable software
 force-badtest virtualbox-ext-pack/all