On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 7:47 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
> I registered lapwing as a 32b Debian 7 so I thought it would be expected to
> keep it as-is rather than upgrading to all newer major Debian versions,
> especially since there were newer debian animal registered (no 32b though
> AFAICS).
Animals do get upgraded: see the "w. e. f." ("with effect from") line
in https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_members.pl which
comes from people running something like ./update_personality.pl
--os-version "11" so that it shows up on the website.
> I'm not opposed to upgrading it but I think there's still value in
> having somewhat old packages versions being tested, especially since there
> isn't much 32b coverage of those. I would be happy to register a newer 32b
> version, or even sid, if needed but the -m32 part on the CI makes me think
> there isn't much value doing that now.
Totally up to you as an animal zoo keeper but in my humble opinion the
interesting range of Debian releases currently is 11-13, or maybe 10
if you really want to test the LTS/old-stable release (and CI is
testing 11).
> I think this is the first time that a problem raised by -Werror on that old
> animal is actually a false positive, while there were many times it reported
> useful stuff. Now this has been up for years before we got better CI tooling,
> especially with -m32 support, so there might not be any value to have it
> anymore. As I mentioned at [1] I don't mind removing it or just work on
> upgrading any dependency (or removing known buggy compiler flags) to keep it
> without being annoying. In any case I'm usually quite fast at reacting to any
> problem/complaint on that animal, so you don't have to worry about the
> buildfarm being red too long if it came to that.
Yeah, it's given us lots of useful data, thanks. Personally I would
upgrade it so it keeps telling us useful things but I feel like I've
said enough about that so I'll shut up now :-) Re: being red too
long... yeah that reminds me, I really need to fix seawasp ASAP...
