Build failures on master?!

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 09:48:38PM +0000, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
> The last 19 commits on https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master,
> starting from Nov 14 have a red cross from the CIs. What's going on again?

I have filed 2 issues on Nov 9 that that caused the CIs to fail,
that that haven't been closed yet.

> My personal impression is that builds on master are failing 50% of the time.
> 
> It is really tedious to check pull requests for build errors just to find that those errors
> are well known failures from master. In particular, the krb5 an pyca tests are notoriously
> failing. Are there any plans to fix them or disable them?
> 
>   95-test_external_krb5.t     (Wstat: 256 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
>   95-test_external_pyca.t     (Wstat: 256 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
> 
> Clean builds on master should have highest priority. Because if there are too many red
> crosses, nobody cares about them anymore.

Note that they are also broken in the 1.1.1-stable branch.

At least pyca is something you should be able to fix with a new
upstream version.


Kurt