[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#958828: telegram-purple: FTBFS on big endian architectures

[Thorsten Glaser]

severity 958828 important
outlook 958828 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958828#18
thanks

Hi Ben,

> tl;dr: wontfix (cantfix)

ok. If it’s by design, I can declare the package little-endian-only.

> I'm effectively the maintainer of telegram-purple. Not because I
> actually *develop* it forward, but because I seem to be the only person
> who responds to and manages pull requests, and occasionally make a new
> release or a small adjustment here and there.

I see.

> You might want to read up on
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809623#155 and
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835141 for some
> history.

Thanks, enlightening.

> If you want, I'd be happy to collaborate on porting of telegram-purple
> away from libtgl and to tdlib, as outlined in this issue:
> https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple/issues/480
> Interested in making telegram-purple 2.0.0 together? :)

Yeah, sorry, I’m just using it as backend for spectrum2, and
I have so many OSS projects I’m working at already… I have to
decline. But maybe someone else will stumble upon this and join.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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