Your message dated Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:55:06 +0200 with message-id <20140331005506.gs27...@sym.noone.org> has caused the report #742940, regarding since: Does not work on mips (includes test suite failures and FTBFS) to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) m...@welz.org.za
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--- Begin Message ---Dear Marc, I've added a simple test suite[0] to the Debian package of since after I've got a bug report that it doesn't work properly on Debian GNU/Hurd[1]. The test suite is run at build time and test suite failures hence trigger build failures[2]. On the mips architecture the test-suite fails and the symptoms are as following: $ echo foo > foo $ since foo foo $ since foo since: considering foo to be truncated, displaying from start foo $ See [1] and [2] for the symptoms on the architectures mipsel and mips. If you want the resulting .since files where the test suite fails, I can send it to you by e-mail. Given the different symptoms, I suspect that issue on the different architectures are different issues. If fixes cannot be found easily, I'll likely stop building "since" on these Debian architectures until fixes are found. Since since does not work on these architectures, I think it's better to not offering at all on these architectures instead of offering a non-working package. [0] http://sources.debian.net/src/since/1.1-4/debian/tests/simple [1] http://bugs.debian.org/591386 [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=since P.S.: Feel free to include my test suite in your tar-ball. If you do so, it would be nice, if it would be run when calling "make test". Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
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