Bug#827199: hfst: FTBFS: twolc test fails on big-endian systems

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 12:49:37AM +0100, Tino Didriksen wrote:
> On 4 November 2016 at 20:49, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > While it did successfully build in the past, that was only because the
> > test
> > > > suite was disabled until recently. The tests revealed the unsigned char
> > > > issue which was easy to fix, and now the endian issue which will not
> > be as
> > > > easy.
> >
> > Any news?
> 
> 
> Yes, it will be fixed this month. We've got a strategy that'll work for the
> primary usecases - using little-endian everywhere.

Progress?

At this point this has been the last package stuck in a library
transition (ignoring openssl), and we are in deep freeze.

I think a fix is highly overdue.

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