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

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On 10/5/26 8:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> 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.

Also, this is usually a sign of something that is dependent on 
microarchitecture behaviour that is not guaranteed anywhere including 
the machines where it "works."

This is especially true for software that don't even have a reason for 
architecture-specific hacks, like a note-taking app.

Basically, thousands of apps work fine on all architectures, and this 
one doesn't, so this is clearly a bug in the app. Whether it really 
works on x86, we don't know, it might just not trigger the problem in a 
detectable way, and when released to users, silently lose their data.

Removal from testing is entirely warranted, IMO.

    Simon