[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#974137: FTFBS (on Ubuntu) for ppc64el and s390x

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Package: libsmithwaterman
Version: 0.0+git20160702.2610e25-9

Hi,
symbols tracking for C++ always seems to be a mess. This is mentioned in
[1][2] and actually way too many places :-/. Recent bug 957476 was another
symptom of that. Unfortunately the symbols trackin of libsmithwaterman is
broken in Ubuntu at the moment.

I was wondering when I found that it isn't in Debian. I compared gcc
versions, ran it with 10 and 10.2, compared configure output, ... but could
not find the actual root cause :-/.
But what I know is that it is reliably broken on ppc64 & s390x for Ubuntu.

It must be a Debian/Ubuntu difference that didn't come to my mind for
testing.
I wondered if you'd consider marking some symbols as non ppc64/s390x.

With the attached change applied it would build [1] on Ubuntu again.
OTOH I'd also absolutely understand if you'd nack this suggestion as it
would no more give you those symbols in the tracking since - for
whatever reason - they are reliably present in the Debian builds.

[1]:
https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4330/+packages

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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