mutter autopkgtests fail to detect regressions in mesa
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
a last-hour upload of mutter for kinetic release fails to build from source on armhf due to what appears to be a regression in mesa's llvmpipe implementation in the mesa 22.2.1-1ubuntu1 build.
If this is a regression in mesa, it should have been possible to detect it before mesa was promoted, via autopkgtests in the mutter package.
Counterintuitively, mutter declares autopkgtests, but the autopkgtests do NOT test any of the OpenGL functionality via the mutter "nested view". Therefore the regression was only detected at the next upload of mutter, NOT before mesa was promoted to the release, when we want to be catching it.
Please fix mutter to ensure that the autopkgtests have at least as much coverage as the build-time tests, which is the right way around.
| tags: | added: rls-mm-incoming |
| Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 45.0-3ubuntu3
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mutter (45.0-3ubuntu3) mantic; urgency=medium
* Update build autopkgtest to not run dh_auto_test (LP: #2038564)
-- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:29:32 -0400