Bug#1020246: Not an active maintainer, but

[Iustin Pop]

On 2023-06-24 16:58:15, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/ndmitchell/hoogle/issues/359
> 
> Hi Iustin,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 11:25PM, Iustin Pop wrote:
> > AFAIK, both armel and armfh are low-powered/"slow" arches, but i386 is
> > surprising. Maybe due to memory limits?
> > 
> > I wonder if tests shouldn't simply be restricted to amd64, arm64, ppc64el and
> > s390x? This should give it enough of architecture heterogeneity to catch
> > any problems that simply do not appear on amd64 (mainstream arch) (yes,
> > I've been bitten by this in one package of mine).
> > 
> > This would be a cheap fix (one entry in the control file). Thoughts?
> > (Anyone?) It seems this bug is the only one that prevents it from
> > entering testing (and it's a leaf package).
> 
> Unfortunately it's not just the tests that fail, hoogle is currently
> completely broken on all 32-bit architectures. We need to either fix it,
> or remove hoogle from these architectures.

Ooh, interesting.

I agree with Neil's last comment in the upstream bug - Hoogle was even
years ago when I last built it a memory/CPU hog, so I think restricting
to 64 bit is better than not having it. My 2c.

iustin