Subject: bug#63533: test-mbrlen5.sh failure

From: Carlo Arenas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 18:07:05 -0700

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 12:43 PM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
<[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:09:38PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 2:44 PM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
> > <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:09:02PM -0400, Caleb Zulawski wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Isn’t this test too strict, then?
> > >
> > > It shouldn't had been included with the release; the attached patch
> > > should help with that for future releases.
> >
> > Thanks for looking into this, Carlo.
> >
> > However, I think we should not limit the gnulib tests that are run via
> > grep just to accommodate systems with broken code, even when grep
> > happens not to exercise the broken code path.
>
> Make a good point, specially considering that it should only affect systems
> that are EOL like Centos 7

One correction here though, CentOS 7[1] has still about 1 year of
shelf life left, which is probably why conda is still using it as base
of its image.

Carlo

[1] https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/