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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Mon, 2026-10-05 at 12:42 +0200, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 10:27 AM Trupti Shirsat <trupti at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I can see ppc64el is now showing as Installed for 51.0-1. Did the new
> > upstream release and disabling parallel tests fix the issue?
> > 
> > If so, should we close bug #1148857?
> 
> I assume we got lucky that it built this time on ppc64el and it will
> likely fail the next time we want to update the gnote packaging. The
> same or similar build failure is also seen on armhf, i386 and s390x .
> If it fails to build on ppc64el next time, I will likely have the
> package removed from ppc64el as I'm doing with the other
> architectures. Sorry, but if I don't remove it, then gnote would be
> removed from Testing for every architecture. I don't have the extra
> time or interest to debug this issue much further.

GNOME software quality doesn't seem to be anymore what it used to be.

I don't like the trend that what used to be cross-platform is slowly
getting exclusive to x86_64 and ARM. "Works on my computer" shouldn't
become the norm.

Adrian

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