Bug#839867: pygtk: FTBFS on sparc64 - bus error in testsuite

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Adrian!

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:29:50AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Andreas!
> 
> We as the sparc64 porters would still appreciate to have the package
> fixed though. Especially since - as you mentioned yourself - pygtk
> still has many reverse dependencies. We just want to fix as many
> packages on sparc64 as possible so that we're absolutely ready
> to turn it into a release architecture when Oracle finally ships
> the hardware :).
> 
> So, if you cannot be bothered to do the upload yourself, I'd be
> happy to NMU this package to get this issue resolved :).

I'm not personally interested, just trying to provide some feedback
that might be useful to you. I asked on #debian-gnome and atleast
pochu answered he's still interested in keeping the package around
in pkg-gnome and offered to take care of it. If you want to NMU I think
just handing him a NMUdiff so we can keep packaging svn up to date
to avoid accidentally loosing NMU changes in the future could work.

(Also, not sure why you want to build these.... having them missing
could in this case even be considered a feature. ;P
... but I guess you have "% of the archive" criterias to meet which
doesn't take into considerations how much of the archive is just
zombies and how your missing set intersects with the zombie set.)

Again, thanks for providing a patch (which is in my experience
unfortunately too rare despite this being an open source volunteer
effort). Hope it works out.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson