Bug#724469: FTBFS on all big-endian architectures

[Brian Manning]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:18 AM, intrigeri <intrigeri+debian at boum.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since 0.015, some of the Glib-Object-Introspection tests fail on all
> big-endian architectures supported by Debian.
>
> I am attaching the original bug report. More info can be found at
> http://bugs.debian.org/724469, including a patch that apparently fixes
> the problem on 32-bit big endian architectures:
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;filename=gperl-i11n-invoke-c_big_endian_32.patch;att=1;bug=724469
>
> The patch author says that more work will be needed for 64-bit big
> endian architectures.
>
> Is upstream interested in supporting these architectures, or is
> the ball in the Debian porters' court?

There's already a bug in RT for this, with a patch, and a similar
statement about 64-bit big endian architectures; I haven't checked to
see if the two patches are the same, but it sounds like they may be.

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=89552

I would say "whoever fixes it first, everybody wins".

Thanks,

Brian