Package: harfbuzz
Version: 1.7.2-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu bionic ubuntu-patch

Dear maintainers,

In Ubuntu we found a regression in freetype 2.8.1 due to unaligned memory
access on armhf (when running on certain chips in certain kernel
configurations) that was only discovered because it caused harfbuzz to fail
to build on this architecture.

It would have been useful to catch this regression much earlier, if the
harfbuzz build-time test suite were run at the time the new version of
freetype was introduced, instead of later as part of an archive rebuild test.

So I've added a simple build-only autopkgtest to harfbuzz in Ubuntu; please
see the attached patch, and please consider whether you think this would
also be useful to have in Debian.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slanga...@ubuntu.com                                     vor...@debian.org
diff -Nru harfbuzz-1.7.2/debian/tests/control 
harfbuzz-1.7.2/debian/tests/control
--- harfbuzz-1.7.2/debian/tests/control 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ harfbuzz-1.7.2/debian/tests/control 2018-04-12 20:36:14.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Test-Command: true
+Depends: @, @builddeps@
+Restrictions: build-needed

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