Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on armel.


Relevant part (hopefully):
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2024/04/20/softhsm2_2.6.1-2.2_unstable-armel.log

All bugs filed during this archive rebuild are listed at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-20240420;users=lucas@debian.org
or:
https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=na&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=ftbfs-20240420&fusertaguser=lucas@debian.org&allbugs=1&cseverity=1&ctags=1&caffected=1#results

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.

Hi,

I've tried to reproduce this on amdahl in an armel chroot, but it
builds just fine there.

Chris

retitle 1069539 softhsm2: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)
severity 1069539 important
thanks

Hello.

This one has been failing 20% of the time for me for the last months/years
but never got to the point of reporting it myself.

See the bunch of build logs I accumulated so far:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/softhsm2/

I'm changing the title because I think it's not arch-specific at all.
See also this test failure on i386:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/bookworm/i386/softhsm2_2.6.1-2.1.rbuild.log.gz

Just try building on amd64, but do it a bunch of times. If that does not
work please contact me privately as I can provide a machine where the
package ftbfs "randomly in a consistent way".

The tests in src/lib/test are based on random data, which explains why
they sometimes fail, but IMHO a 20% failure rate is too much for
a Debian package (I feel the upstream authors should have
fine-tuned the tests before making any release).

Thanks.

severity 1069539 serious
found 1069539 2.6.1-2.1
tags 1069539 patch
thanks

Hi. The most recent failure rate I've calculated for this package is around 50%,
which exceeds the common thresholds used by the RT.

Fortunately I found an explanation and a fix here:

https://github.com/softhsm/SoftHSMv2/pull/783/commits/d42b94763eb16c75dba227d6b670eee7ab84585e

which I'm attaching to this message (to be imported by quilt).

I've built the package in my setup with the patch more
than 50 times and now it builds ok, so I believe it's correct.


[ Cc: to Ondřej, the usual uploader. I hope you find some minutes
   to apply the patch and make an upload. If you want a VM to
   reproduce, the offer still holds ].

Thanks.

tags -1 - moreinfo

I repro the failure in 28 out of 80 builds without the patch and 0 out
of 30 builds with the patch on amd64, so I think we can say this is a
confirmed reproduction! (Is "RT", "release team"? What threshold would
they use, out of interest?)

The explanation for the patch is plausible - would be nice if upstream
had reviewed it but it was part of a larger pull request so we probably
ought not to hold our breath for that!

Hope this helps.

Yes.

Paul Gevers use 1/6 as a threshold (with some caveats, but they do not
apply to this case).

Thanks.

Thanks, I am doing the upload now.

The problem with SoftHSM is that the upstream is mostly dead.

Perhaps we should rather drop the package after trixie has been
released than keeping it barely afloat, but that's a decision for the
other day.

Ondrej
--
Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
ondrej@sury.org <mailto:ondrej@sury.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
softhsm2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1069539@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org> (supplier of updated softhsm2 package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:02:27 +0200
Source: softhsm2
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian DNS Team <team+dns@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>
Closes: 1069539
Changes:
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