Hi Simon, On Mon, 2026-10-05 at 21:41 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > Also, this is usually a sign of something that is dependent on > microarchitecture behaviour that is not guaranteed anywhere including > the machines where it "works." > > This is especially true for software that don't even have a reason for > architecture-specific hacks, like a note-taking app. > > Basically, thousands of apps work fine on all architectures, and this > one doesn't, so this is clearly a bug in the app. Whether it really > works on x86, we don't know, it might just not trigger the problem in a > detectable way, and when released to users, silently lose their data.
Fully agreed. Testsuite failures often, not always, but often are exposing bugs that actually exist on x86_64 as well but they might not be as easy to trigger there. Architectures like SPARC are like the canary coal mine as they are super- sensitive to alignment issues and other bugs which should be dealt with. > Removal from testing is entirely warranted, IMO. Agreed. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
