Subject: [bug#53434] Patches to unbreak many i686 packages

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:38:33 +0100

Ludovic Courtès schreef op wo 16-02-2022 om 14:53 [+0100]:
> Hi,
> 
> Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli schreef op za 22-01-2022 om 03:59 [+0100]:
> > > * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (upower)[arguments]<#:tests?>:
> > 
> > Reported upstream at
> > <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/167>.

> However, it turns out there upower builds fine currently:
> [...]
> Did the problem sort itself?

The test failure was somewhat non-deterministic.

> This reminds me that we had to build with ‘-fexcess-
> precision=standard’
> many packages on i686 since the switch to GCC 10.  Would it help?

Possibly, but perhaps backporting the upstream fix that largely avoids
floating-point arithmetic would be better?
(See
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/merge_requests/101>.)

Also, looks like there's a '0.99.15' release now
(https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/tree/v0.99.15),
so perhaps we could just update upower?

Greetings,
Maxime.