Bug#839867: pygtk: FTBFS on sparc64 - bus error in testsuite

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 10/07/2016 03:22 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> I'm not personally interested, just trying to provide some feedback
> that might be useful to you. I asked on #debian-gnome and atleast
> pochu answered he's still interested in keeping the package around
> in pkg-gnome and offered to take care of it. If you want to NMU I think
> just handing him a NMUdiff so we can keep packaging svn up to date
> to avoid accidentally loosing NMU changes in the future could work.

James (CC'ed) is currently working on a NMUdiff and I'm sure he can send
one to pochu. He wanted to do the NMU himself with me being the sponsor,
but I guess this way is fine, too.

> (Also, not sure why you want to build these.... having them missing
> could in this case even be considered a feature. ;P
> ... but I guess you have "% of the archive" criterias to meet which
> doesn't take into considerations how much of the archive is just
> zombies and how your missing set intersects with the zombie set.)

Exactly. We just want to increase this percentage to the highest
possible value.

> Again, thanks for providing a patch (which is in my experience
> unfortunately too rare despite this being an open source volunteer
> effort). Hope it works out.

All credits for the patch go to James :). In fact, he has already
fixed so many issues particularly on sparc64 that I'm all for making
him a DD as soon as possible!

Adrian

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