[libvirt] [PATCH] Deal with gnutls 3.5.6 regression

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:01:10AM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 09:15:12AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Anyone want to review this, if not I'll just claim its a build
> > breaker fix...
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 09:56:43AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 12:04:36PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > I was not originally planning to do anything for the gnutls 3.5.6
> > > > regression:
> > > >
> > > >   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-November/msg00816.html
> > > >
> > > > but there's still no immediate sign of the new 3.5.7 release,
> > > > so while I still don't want to workaround the bug in libvirt,
> > > > we can at least blacklist that version of gnutls in the test
> > > > suite, so 'make check' passes on affected systems while we're
> > > > waiting for 3.5.7 to arrive.
> > > 
> > > 3.5.7 has just hit Fedora updates-testing, but I figure we
> > > might as well still blacklist 3.5.6 in our tests
> > 
> 
> Isn't the point of the test suite to also fail on broken systems?

To some extent yes. The question is whether the failure is serious
enough that we should continue to have the tests failure, or just a
minor annoyance that we should paper over it.

I'm fairly on the fence about this one - originally I wasn't going
to fix it, but it took a while for 3.5.7 to arrive and quite a few
people raised the issue of broken tests to me in the meanwhile.

We could just leave this patch sitting on the list here for archive
reference, but not fix it in git.

Regards,
Daniel
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