Package: src:spades Version: 3.9.1+dfsg-1 Dear maintainer:
I can't build this package on a machine with 2 GB RAM and 2 GB swap. This is usually not a problem by itself, because each package needs what it needs, and therefore this bug is not severity serious as FTBFS bugs usually are, but it is a problem in this package because of two reasons: * Looking at Committed_AS in /proc/meminfo during the build, the package does not seem to need more than 2GB of RAM in either case. * There is not a clear message saying "Memory exhausted" or "not enough memory" or anything like that. I attach two different build logs. The one called "ok" was made on a machine with 6GB of RAM and 4 GB of swap. The one called "notok" was made on a machine with 2 GB of RAM and 2 GB of swap. Please take a look at the second build log and try to determine how anybody is supposed to know that there was not enough memory from the build log. (Well, maybe the package is actually doing something weird with the memory and maybe it should work after all). To reproduce please try to build this on a single-CPU machine having 2 GB of RAM and 2 GM of swap. [ Note: In the subject of this bug I've used "low" memory between quotes because 2 GB of RAM is not actually so small. Among the 17209 source packages that may be built with "dpkg-buildpackage -A", 17089 of them, that is, 99.3% of them, need less than 2 GB of RAM to build ]. Thanks.
spades_3.9.1+dfsg-1_amd64-20170129T004745Z.ok.gz
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spades_3.9.1+dfsg-1_amd64-20170129T004422Z.notok.gz
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