Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a
> > > missing symbol?
> > 
> > Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand on
> > so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs disapeared
> > when recompiling the faulty binaries against the proper versions of
> > libraries so far.
> 
> If I read between the lines right, this time it was breakage in brltty
> on sparc, and I've removed it from the pkg-lists for sparc now.

Is any arch still using brltty? Do we care about it?

Does brltty break on i386, m68k or alpha too?

MfG
        Goswin