Bug#1021310: libsdl2: FTBFS on hppa - testevdev: FAILED: 1

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 + help

On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 at 14:43:00 +0000, John David Anglin wrote:
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

hppa is not a release architecture, so FTBFS on hppa is not RC.

This test-case seems to have been failing on hppa around 75% of the time
since it was added. I don't know why it would do that, because this
test-case should be deterministic: it's inspecting a simulation of the
capabilitities info that we would have received from the kernel for a
particular input device, and running SDL's algorithm to guess what type
of input device it represents (keyboard, mouse, gamepad, etc.). When it
fails on hppa, the failure mode is that none of the bits representing a
device type get set.

It seems to be reliable on release architectures, including i386 which is
32-bit and s390x which is big-endian.

Non-release architecture porters are welcome to investigate why this
is going wrong on their favourite architecture, and if the root cause
turns out to be a bug in SDL, I'm sure upstream would appreciate a patch.

    smcv