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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Simon,

On Mon, 2026-10-05 at 21:41 +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> 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.

Fully agreed. Testsuite failures often, not always, but often are exposing
bugs that actually exist on x86_64 as well but they might not be as easy
to trigger there.

Architectures like SPARC are like the canary coal mine as they are super-
sensitive to alignment issues and other bugs which should be dealt with.

> Removal from testing is entirely warranted, IMO.

Agreed.

Adrian

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