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

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 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.

I think your criticism of GNOME is misplaced. This build failure is
seen because we are running build tests more regularly that we used
to. Also, gnote technically isn't GNOME Software because it is neither
part of core GNOME nor in GNOME Circle. This year, we moved packages
like this to the Debian GNOME Extras team to help make this more clear
to people looking at Debian packages.

This is yet another case where build tests are failing on
architectures that I don't own. Furthermore, this is an app that I
don't even use. We could ignore the tests but how do we know the
packages work on those architectures?

Maybe the build test failure is actually triggered by a behavior
change or bug in libxml2 earlier this year?

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha