Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 04:56:26PM +0000, 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. with PCF bitmap
> fonts), and that may even be enough (X servers can load PCFs from
> reverse-endian builds), but it may be a bug. So you’d ideally use
> both.
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
particular problem has solved itself :)
Meow!
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