[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#970462: [RFS] Bug#970462: sweed: autopkgtest arm64 failure

Nilesh Patra npatra974 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 16:17:59 BST 2020


Hi,

On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 20:34, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier at mailoo.org>
wrote:

> Control: tags -1 pending
>
> Greetings,
>
> I tried to investigate the issue of running SweeD autopkgtests
> on arm64.  It turned out to be caused by the assumption that the
> "char" type was "signed" by default, while it is "unsigned" by
> default at least on arm64.  The patch I added makes several
> targeted changes, so that the test suite goes through without
> either crashing (segfault) or hanging (infinite loop).
>
> I also tried to ensure test results were unchanged compared to
> other CPU architectures, and as far as I could see, they the
> same on arm64 (with the patch) and on amd64 (without the patch).
>
> Changes are available on Salsa for review:
>
>         https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sweed
>
> Thanks Paul for having reported the issue, and Thanks Nilesh for
> having written the test suite that allowed to catch the bug!  :)
>

Thanks a lot! Uploaded!

Kind Regards
Nilesh
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