Bug#1081309: src:gnome-characters: fails to migrate to testing for too long

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 at 18:27:48 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Migration status for gnome-characters (46.0-1 to 47~alpha-1): BLOCKED: Maybe
> temporary, maybe blocked but Britney is missing information (check below)
> Issues preventing migration:
> ∙ ∙ missing build on mips64el

This was caused by the unit test segfaulting on mips64el, and the latest
retry seems to have avoided this fate. I'm hoping that this was fixed by
the recent addition of an ORCJIT llvmpipe driver in Mesa, meaning that we
finally have working OpenGL on mips64el buildds (among other architectures)
without needing special workarounds.

I'm reluctant to have packages compile on all architectures for the sake
of compiling on all architectures if there is evidence that the resulting
binaries might not actually work, so if we get similar test failures
in leaf packages, I'm likely to start asking for architecture-specific
removals.

    smcv