Hi Steve, On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:14:19 -0700 Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote: > 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.
Is that patch correct? It doesn't seem to be building anything? Emilio
