[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#915460: Bug#915450: staden-io-lib FTBFS on big endian: test failures

[James Bonfield]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:31:57AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> to see what architectures are building nicely as well as links to
> the build logs of the others.

I'm suspecting a couple issues here.

1) A probable endianness bug.  I'll have to emulate something to test
that, but I see a common CRC issue.

2) Something else entirely, which I've yet to get a vibe for.

> line 27 really contains the '==' (double equal) - I guess replacing it
> by '=' might (or might not) fix the issue.  It seems that while it is
> actually a sh syntax error this does not lead to an actual failure of
> the test.  I simply patched this in

Argh, I thought I put that fix in before 1.14.11, but git logs
indicate otherwise.  Indeed my tarball of it has it fixed, but
apparently I locally ran a make distcheck at some point after making
this fix already (commit 8e8d18d).

Anyway, that's ticked off already and as you point out it's not the
cause of the test failure.

> Debian has developer machines with purpose "Porterbox"[1] where Debian
> developers can get ssh access.  If externals want access they can apply
> for it and it needs a signed mail from a DD to confirm that application.
> The process is not really straightforward and I for myself prefer to ask
> on the according mailing lists for help from porters since I usually
> have no idea about those architectures and porters to my perception are
> very helpful (in most cases).

I'll give a local qemu a try first to see if I can figure out the
more obvious cases.  However it would make life easier if there were
standard images that could just be given to qemu, kvm, etc to test
on.

Most people have access to virtual machine software so this is likely
the easier approach than paperwork to grant access to a remote
server.  It's slow to execute, but I can live with that.

James

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