[DRE-maint] Bug#859463: ruby-unf-ext FTBFS on ppc64el: unf/table.hh:13539:25: error: narrowing conversion of '-52' from 'int' to 'char' inside { } [-Wnarrowing]

[Niels Thykier]

Antonio Terceiro:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 02:26:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>>[...]
> 
> Nope. That was actually done after the current upstream release that we
> have in Debian, actually tyring to _fix_ the issue. The actual fix comes
> a little later in
> https://github.com/knu/ruby-unf_ext/commit/8a6a735b51ef903200fc541112e35b7cea781856
> 
> I even proposed to revert that:
> https://github.com/knu/ruby-unf_ext/pull/27
> 
> Upstream seems to be cooking a new release, to be released at any time
> now I assume. With or without that special case for ARM, the code buids
> OK under ppc64el.
> 
> I will probably upload that, since the resulting upstream diff looks
> quite unproblematic (if they accept my proposal, the chunk for
> ext/unf_ext/extconf.rb will disappear from the final diff):
> 
> [...]
> 

Great, thanks for following up. :)

I am looking forward to hearing about upstream's take on it and seeing
the fix in stretch. :)

Thanks,
~Niels