Hi, On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 09:26 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2025-08-18 at 19:48 -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: > > > The failing 'checkasm-sw_yuv2rgb' test was new for FFmpeg 7.1 and > > > indeed I don't think that one is sporadic. > > > Unfortunately at the time, upstream was not running the test suite on > > > 32- or 64-bit PowerPC (or any big-endian configuration either). > > > > > > 'checkasm-llauddsp' is the one that can fail sporadically and I > > > suspect it just doesn't run often enough to observe the failure on > > > buildd. > > > We see it very often upstream. > > > > Could you disable the ASM stuff on ppc64 in any case for the time being? > > > > It's really annoying having to manually build and upload ffmpeg for ppc64 > > all the time to work around this problem. > > The package again failed to build from source on ppc64 because of this bug: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ffmpeg&arch=ppc64&ver=7%3A7.1.1-1%2Bb8&stamp=1756717384&raw=0 > > And I will have built it manually again. Can you please disable the ASM stuff > for ppc64 for the time being? It's better to have a slow ffmpeg package than > one that doesn't build at all.
I sent this exact thing up to salsa several weeks ago when you originally asked for it: https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/ffmpeg/-/merge_requests/15 It's been sitting unreviewed since then. Thanks, Sean McGovern
