[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1148857: gnote: FTBFS on ppc64el: gnote_unit_tests killed by SIGABRT (not reproducible locally)

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 11:25 AM Trupti <trupti at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> I could not reproduce the failure locally on ppc64el:
> A clean sbuild of gnote 51~beta-2 in a sid ppc64el chroot succeeded,
> including the test suite.
>
> Since the failure does not reproduce, it may be intermittent or caused
> by a build-dependency difference on that buildd at that time.
> Could you request a give-back on ppc64el to see whether it recurs? If it
> does, I can help collect a backtrace.

The error is similar to what is seen on armhf and i386.

Do you use ppc64el?

The pass rate for that build test on Debian's buildds is bad. I had
gnote removed earlier this year on ppc64el because of the Debian
buildd failures:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gnote&arch=ppc64el

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha