Bug#878319: mozjs52: tests fail on ppc64el: timeout

[Simon McVittie]

Source: mozjs52
Version: 52.3.1-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org

Build-time test suite failures for mozjs52 have been made non-fatal on
ppc64el because the tests time out. This is clearly a bug, but it isn't
clear what the severity of that bug is: it could be anything from minor
(if trivial functionality is broken) to RC (if mozjs52 is basically
unusable on this architecture).

Any testing and patches that ppc64el users can provide would be
appreciated. If it isn't fixed, depending on feedback about the severity
of whatever underlying bug is causing these test failures, mozjs52 will
either remain available with known test failures, or be removed from
ppc64el (with the test failures becoming a FTBFS).

mozjs52 is used by current versions of gjs, so architecture-specific
removal of mozjs52 would also require architecture-specific removal of
gnome-shell, gnome-maps, polari etc., which would in turn make the
GNOME task and metapackages uninstallable on this architecture.

    smcv