Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
kilobyte dixit: >Funny thing: there's not a single release architecture that's both >bad-endian and supports X (they do build X related packages because the >dependency graph is quite dense, but there are no users). So this Meh. Remote X, X forwarding over SSH, VNC and RDP servers exist. So do

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-29 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le lun. 29 août 2022 à 03:30, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 04:56:26PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dixit: > > >If these tests are run at build-time, errors halt the build and that > provides > > > > That may not be enough, though; there are cases

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 04:56:26PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dixit: > >If these tests are run at build-time, errors halt the build and that provides > > That may not be enough, though; there are cases where the build > architecture determines artefact endianness (e.g.

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dixit: >If these tests are run at build-time, errors halt the build and that provides That may not be enough, though; there are cases where the build architecture determines artefact endianness (e.g. with PCF bitmap fonts), and that may even be enough (X servers can load

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Edward, On 02-08-2022 18:00, Edward Betts wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to routinely run the autopkgtests on s390x, or another big-endian architecture, for 'Architecture: all' packages and make the results available. We run all autopkgtests on all architectures we have available.

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-02 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 02/08/2022 à 18:00, Edward Betts a écrit : […] I wonder if it would be possible to routinely run the autopkgtests on s390x, or another big-endian architecture, for 'Architecture: all' packages and make the results available. AFAICT, they already are. E.g.

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 2 août 2022, 18.00:40 h CEST Edward Betts a écrit : > I recently packaged a Python module called sqlite-fts4 written by Simon > Willison. The package is pure Python, so is 'Architecture: all', but it > fails on big-endian architectures. The test suite catches this failure. > > The bug