[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#918781: src:gnustep-base: odd FTBFS on powerpc, powerpcspe and ppc64

[Yavor Doganov]

Source: gnustep-base
Version: 1.26.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid buster ftbfs
User: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: powerpc powerpcspe ppc64

Hi PowerPC folks,

As the subject says, gnustep-base failed to build in experimental on
these architectures so I'd appreciate some help.

The powerpcspe failure [1] is extremely awkward; the build appears
successful but the log seems truncated, interrupted during dh_install.
On powerpc [2] and ppc64 [3] there is testsuite failure, but all these
tests pass for me on gcc110 from the GCC Compile Farm.  However,
that's different toolchain and it's not even running Debian so any
conclusion is unreliable.  I don't have access to the porter machines
to test.

Could these failures be related to the fact that kapitsa/kapitsa2 have
some network-related issues as uploading build logs appears to be
suspended for a certain (long) period?

I guess give-backs on these three architectures wouldn't harm?

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnustep-base&arch=powerpcspe&ver=1.26.0-1&stamp=1546973971&raw=0
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnustep-base&arch=powerpc&ver=1.26.0-1&stamp=1547024045&raw=0
[3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gnustep-base&arch=ppc64&ver=1.26.0-1&stamp=1547024045&raw=0